Clickable Phone Number

jiashun

Extension required to make phone number clickable in flarum.
In HTML tag, It's like this:

<a href="tel:1-000-000-0000">1-000-000-0000</a>

But this doesn't work in flarum.

Will this extension be available in future?

Thanks.

jiashun

anybody know?

HavocK

jiashun Someone will eventually do that extension. But until then you'll have to wait...

jordanjay29

It would probably either need to be an extension or a change in JoshyPHP's text formatter library, which Flarum uses for doing things like automatic urls and mailto links.

jiashun

Feature of click-able phone number is very useful for modern mobile friendly website.
Strongly demand to add this feature.

Can anybody send a request to the author of s9e\TextFormatter to add this feature?
Many Thanks.

Digital

jiashun You can ask @JoshyPHP directly.

or pull a request here: https://github.com/s9e/TextFormatter

Please be advised that there is no guarantee that it will be added upon request.

Like @HavocK and @jordanjay29 said, wait for someone to make an extension for it.

jiashun

@JoshyPHP Please add this feature. Thanks for your great job.

JoshyPHP

I don't know anything about initiating calls from HTML and I don't think there's much value in providing a way to do that by default in the library. That's something that could be implemented via a custom BBCode in an extension or something of the sort.

$configurator->BBCodes->addCustom(
	'[tel number={REGEXP=/\+?\d+(?:-\d+)+/;useContent}]{TEXT}[/tel]',
	'<a href="tel:{@number}">{TEXT}</a>'
);

jordanjay29

JoshyPHP At bare minimum, letting the protocol be automatically detected and linked, like email and fully formed http links are, could be useful. Then someone's browser/phone could handle the rest, if it can.

JoshyPHP

jordanjay29 There are many ways to format a phone number; With dashes, slashes, with a + somewhere, a couple of parentheses in the middle, etc... You'd have too many false positives.

jordanjay29

JoshyPHP Good point.