Separating php form values

I have a form and on submit, it goes to submit.php.

The input text look开发者_开发问答s like this:

<input name="hpno[1]" type="text" maxlength="3" size="3" /> - <input name="hpno[2]" type="text" maxlength="8" size="13" />

I need to store the data as per this format (010) 5839539.

Tried putting this in the submit.php

$hpno = implode('-', $_POST['hpno']); but this gives the output 010-5839539.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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$(hpno) = '(' . implode(') ', $_POST['hpno']); ?

Sorry, rusty with my PHP. Let me know what that puts out, especially if it's just an error.

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If you want it to be in the format (xxx) xxxxxxx, you'll have to do something like this:

$hpno = '('.$_POST["hpno[1]"].') '.$_POST["hpno[2]"];

You mentioned that you would be storing the data, so be careful if you're storing this in a database, you're clearly vulnerable to an injection attack this way.

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You could help to prevent an SQL injection like this:

$hpno = mysql_real_escape_string("(" . $_POST['hpno[1]'] . ") " . $_POST['hpno[2]']);

This will give you the formatting you need and scrub the input (though it's not perfect, or bullet-proof).