Simple Clean Phone Output

simple-clean-phone.php

/*
 * Pass in the phone number in it's natural state, return the numeric only version or pass 'true' as the second parameter and get ther anchor tag as well 
 */

function aad_clean_phone( $number_to_clean, $return_type = false ) {
  
  // Simple regex removes any non-numeric characters
	$clean = preg_replace( '/\D/', "", $number_to_clean );

  // Return full anchor tag is $return_type is true, else just return the stripped phone number
	if ( $return_type ) :
		return '<a href="tel:' . $clean . '">' . $number_to_clean . '</a>';
	else :
		return $clean;
	endif;
}