Looking for a way to search by phone number

Unfortunately, that doesn’t work and when making a custom string within the calling app I don’t have control over the variable $phone_number which I append to the URL and produces numbers in this format. 2223334444.

Maybe Elastic Grid is the answer? I managed to setup a docker with it, as per the online guide, HOWEVER…there was no mention on securing that EG with a username and password, which is a huge security vulnerability if hosting online. I searched for the answer but was unsuccessful in the time had to look. If that could be added to the guide in the documentation, I’d try it again.