Quickform - formatting a Telephone Number

[imchaz]

I am using Quickform and one of my fields is a telephone number field. I pull this from an array field.

phone=>1234567890

In my quickform object, this is how I set it up.

$form->addElement('text','phone','Phone:'); 

It displays as...
Phone: 1234567890

I am able to retrieve the phone number as 10 digits, but when I display this value in Quickform, instead of seeing as 10 digits, how can I display as:

Phone: (123) 456-7890

I cant find any documentation how I can alter the format of the telephone number.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

[holmescreek]

Here is a function, from the PHP manual that formats phone numbers...

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.sscanf.php#57097

If you know the phone number will always be 10 digits :

sscanf($phone, "%3s%3s%4s", $area, $prefix, $exchange);

echo "Phone : ($area) $prefix-$exchange";

[imchaz]

Here is a function, from the PHP manual that formats phone numbers...

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.sscanf.php#57097

If you know the phone number will always be 10 digits :

sscanf($phone, "%3s%3s%4s", $area, $prefix, $exchange);

echo "Phone : ($area) $prefix-$exchange";

holmescreek, Ill remember this in the future for this function. But in using Quickform layout, I dont think this will help. In Quickform, it doesnt use ECHO statements.

Are you familiar with Quickform? I bought one of Sitepoints book called PHP Anthology and using the Quickform samples to build my forms. Unfortunately, it doesnt seem like to many people use this. The form example it gives is very basic.