How to remove unnecessary characters before validation in Laravel?

Question

Laravel

Hello!
Tell me how to remove all unnecessary characters in Laravel (brackets, spaces, dashes, +) before validation, I get the phone field through a mask like this:

[phone]

, but you need this field to be validated in this form

79999999999

, I know how to remove everything except numbers

preg_replace('/[^\d]/')

but I don't know how to apply it.

Answer 1

don't know how to apply, go to the php.net documentation. There are always examples.
Totally lazy.

Answer 2

...
$phone = preg_replace('/[^\d]/', '', Input::get('phone')); // получаете значение, санируете.
$validator = Validator::make(
    ['phone' => $phone ],
    ['phone' => 'required|numeric|min:10|max:12'], // и так далее - правила валидации
);
...