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A PHP package to validate Sierra Leone phone numbers and return them in a fully qualified format with country code.

📦 Installation

Install via Composer:

composer require silotech/validate-sl-number

If your package is in development and you want to allow unstable versions, you can specify:

composer require silotech/validate-sl-number:dev-main

⚙️ Usage

Include Composer’s autoload file and call the function:

<?php
require __DIR__ . "/vendor/autoload.php";

$phone = "0023273111222";
$result = isPhoneNumberAValidSLNumber($phone);

if ($result !== false) {
    echo "Valid SL Number: " . $result;
} else {
    echo "Invalid SL Number";
}

📝 Function

isPhoneNumberAValidSLNumber(string $phone_number): bool|string

Validates a Sierra Leone phone number and returns it in fully qualified format with +232 if valid.

Parameters:

• $phone_number (string) — The phone number to validate.

Acceptable formats:

• +232xxxxxxxx
• 00232xxxxxxxx
• Local format: 0xxxxxxxx

Returns:

• string — Fully qualified phone number if valid (e.g., +23276111222)
• false if invalid

🔍 Examples

isPhoneNumberAValidSLNumber("+23273111222");   // "+23273111222"
isPhoneNumberAValidSLNumber("0023232111222"); // "+23232111222"
isPhoneNumberAValidSLNumber("033111222");     // "+23233111222"
isPhoneNumberAValidSLNumber("070111222");     // false

🛠 Requirements

• PHP >= 7.4
• Composer

📚 Development

If you are developing or updating this package:

git clone https://github.com/sepolly/validate-sl-number.git
cd validate-sl-number
composer install

📄 License

MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

📢 Author

Simeon Michael
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