Formatting Telephone Numbers

[Anon]

I am trying to figure out how to take the output of a row for telephone numbers like this:
<td width="81%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">
<? echo $row['phone'] ?>

Which would display 5555551212

and format it so that it contains parens and a dash like so:
[phone]

[Anon]

I'm kind of new to PHP but couldn't you use the string EXPLODE function to break it up into a 3 bucket array and then format it that way?

[cordex]

$var='5555551212';
$var = "(".substr($var,0,3).")".substr($var,3,3)."-".substr($var,6);
echo $var ."<BR>";

[kidestranged]

There may be a shorter way but you can do this:

$wholenum = ($row['phone'?)

$areacode = substr($wholenum, 0,3);
$first3 = substr{$wholenum, 3,3);
$last4 = substr($wholenum, -4,);

$phoneformated = "(" . $areacode . ") " . $first3 . " - " . $last4);

[kidestranged]

first line should be
$wholenum = $row['phone']; <- what's the question mark in your version for. If it's something I don't know about, just throw it in there. What does it do though?

The rest of the code should work fine though.

[kidestranged]

And the winner is...
Ben
More concise and tidy.