strlen and parenthesis

[tekomp]

Hi,

I'm doing some form validation on a phone number field and it's returning invalid when I have a parenthesis as the first character of my phone number. Here's the code I have:

$bus_phone = $_POST["bus_phone"];

if(strlen($bus_phone < 10))
{
 $error_msg .= "<li>Your phone number is invalid</li>";
 $errors['bus_phone'] = 1;
}

This returns invalid: [phone]

Does strlen not work with parenthesis or something? Thanks.

[tekomp]

Nevermind this one. I had the parenthesis in the wrong spot.

[coopster]

Exactly.

if (strlen($bus_phone) < 10)

Nice catch ;)