[Koha-bugs] [Bug 23817] Normalize phone number when searching patrons

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23817

David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au> changed:

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--- Comment #12 from David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au> ---
(In reply to David Cook from comment #11)
> I do have one more idea that wouldn't involve changing the data...

There are some ways to provide additional columns to the DBIC query, but it
auto-escapes single quotes, which makes it impossible to use regexp_replace as
a derived column. Plus the DBIC search only works on real columns it seems
(which is a bit silly...)

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I suppose another solution would be a pure Javascript solution that strips
anything but [\+0-9] out of the phone number field when saving and searching...

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Another option would be a database trigger, but Koha has avoided those to date.

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I suppose another idea would be to add a new phone number column called
"phone_normalized". That seems unnecessary though. 

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Now I've spent quite a bit of time on this one, and I suspect it's going to go
nowhere, unfortunately.

There just isn't a good way to deal with this one using DBIC and the REST API I
reckon...

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