I'm thankful to find this forum! Thanks in advance to all for reading and especially to those who comment. I'm definately a newbie to PHP, but pretty motivated having just returned from a 5 day PHP class.

My question:

I'm managing a site that uses PHP 4x, MySQL, and Smarty.

I run a fairly large query in the source PHP that joins 4 tables and the results are set to variable $providers_query, that I then pass over to Smarty.

I list the results by looping through with the section command:

{section name=i loop=$providers_query}

One of the fields I display is the phone number,

{$providers_query[i].phone}

The phone number data is stored as straight unformatted digits, i.e., "3095551212". I want to format the number as (309) 555-1212.

I found a php function that does this, but I'm not sure how to run that function before passing it over to the "section" loop in Smarty along with the other $providers_query.

Alternatively, I found a Smarty modifier plugin that does the same, but even though I copied it to my Smarty templates dir, when I run the code, I get "unrecognized tag: transformPhone|$providers_query.phone ..<snip>

Am I missing how to correctly enable the custom smarty modifier?
Or, is there a way to reformat the data within the query before it gets passed to Smarty?

THANK YOU!

    yeah with smarty using modifiers goes the other way, i.e. {$providers_query.phone|transformPhone}

      Oh for claud's sake, do I feel DUMB.

      Thank you for being so kind to this newbie.

      It woyks !

      THANK YOU!

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