I have a form with a field for a telephone number. I would like to either apply some kind of formatting to force format of XXX-XXX-XXXX or rewrite after submit to insert - in 3 and 5 (or 6). Here is what I have for code: --Form- <td>Home Phone:</td> <td><input type="text" name="home_phone" id="home_phone" size="15" tabindex="8" /></td> handler.php $home = $_POST['home_phone' I have tried str_replace() however im not using it correctly or it is not the correct string to use for this -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php