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.

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

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

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.

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).