### [How to Make Phone Numbers a Link in Email Notifications](https://wpforms.com/developers/how-to-make-phone-numbers-a-link-in-email-notifications/)

**Published:** April 6, 2021
**Author:** Editorial Team

**Excerpt:** This tutorial will show you how you can make a phone number from your form a clickable link inside your email notifications. 

**Content:**

## Introduction

Would you like to make the phone numbers collected in your form a link inside your email notifications? By default, the phone numbers that come through on the email notification cannot be clicked to call, however with a small PHP snippet you can easily change this. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through setting up your form and notifications to make these numbers have the click-to-call capability.

Please know that this snippet will not work if you have **Plain Text** as your selected email template. To find out what email template you’re currently using, please navigate to the **WPForms Settings » Email** tab from the WordPress menu on the left.

## Creating your form

For the purpose of our tutorial, we’re going to create a form with a **Name**, **Email**, **Phone** and **Paragraph Text** form field.

If you need help in creating a form, [please see this documentation](https://wpforms.com/docs/creating-first-form/ "Creating Your First Form").

![create your form and add a phone number field to it](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/wpforms-phone-form.jpg)

## Adding the code to make phone numbers a link

Next, we’re going to add the snippet of code that will turn your **Phone** field into a link when viewing the email notification.

For assistance in adding snippets to your site, [please review this tutorial](https://wpforms.com/developers/how-to-add-custom-php-or-javascript-for-wpforms/ "How to Add Custom PHP or JavaScript for WPForms").

```

/**
 * Make phone numbers a link inside email notifications
 *
 * @link https://wpforms.com/developers/how-to-make-phone-numbers-a-link-in-email-notifications/
 */

function wpf_dev_html_field_value( $value, $field, $form_data, $context = '' ) {

    // Limit this customization to telephone fields.
    if ( ! empty( $field[ 'value' ] ) && 'phone' === $field[ 'type' ] ) {

        $phone_number = sanitize_text_field( $field[ 'value' ] );

        // Make the phone number field a link in the notification
        if ( ! empty( $phone_number ) ) {

            return '' . $phone_number . '';
        }

    }

    return $value;

}
add_filter( 'wpforms_html_field_value', 'wpf_dev_html_field_value', 10, 4 );
```

Let’s review this snippet. The first part of the snippet will only look for the **Phone** form fields. This will limit the need for the snippet to run on every field.

The second part of the snippet will, once a **Phone** field is found, will take the number entered into the form and turn it into a clickable link inside the notification.

Now when your form is completed, the phone number will appear as a link in the email notification.

![Now when your form is completed, the phone number will appear as a link in the email notification](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/wpforms-phone-number-link.jpg)

Would you like to also have further validation on this particular field? Check out our tutorial on [How to Provide Additional Phone Field Validation](https://wpforms.com/developers/how-to-provide-additional-phone-field-validation/ "How to Provide Additional Phone Field Validation").

## Related

Filter Reference: [wpforms\_html\_field\_value](https://wpforms.com/developers/wpforms_html_field_value/ "Using the wpforms_html_field_value filter")

**Categories:** Tutorials

**Tags:** PHP

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