Format Helper

A helper designed to format useful information the right way.

phone($number, $format = '3-3-4') formats a phone number according to the specified format. It takes:

• [string] $number phone number
• [string] $format format string, default 3-3-4
• returns [string] the formated phone number or the number passed if the format string could not have been applied

Example:

echo format::phone('0123456789');

It will result in HTML as:

012-345-6789

url($str = '') formats a URL to contain a protocol at the beginning.. It takes:

• [string] $str possibly incomplete URL
• returns [string] the formated URL

Example:

echo format::url('kohanaphp.com');

It will result in HTML as:

http://kohanaphp.com