Sending/retrieving data from a scrolling text box

Anon

I have created web pages using PHP3 which display details of members of staff
stored on a LDAP database dependent upon data input.

The pages work fine if I input/extract the information using input type = text, but some of these members of staff have several entries in some of the fields (eg PCs), thus only the first item is displayed, although all the records are extracted.

I have tried using textarea to be able to display all the data available, but this results in the scrolling text box being displayed with no data inside.

How do I get PHP to display this information.

My code for tying to display the Pc information is

      <strong>PC</strong><textarea rows = "3" name = "PC" size = "10" 
       value = "<?php echo $pc?>" </textarea>

I later want to be able to process any changes in this box and update the database record. Do I need to treat the data in any special way?

Thanks

Tony

Anon

This is not correct:
<strong>PC</strong><textarea rows = "3" name = "PC" size = "10"
value = "<?php echo $pc?>" </textarea>

You have to echo the $pc between <textarea> and </textarea> tag. On the other side it is better to use <textarea cols="" rows=""> instead "size".
example:
echo"<strong>PC</strong><textarea rows=\"3\" cols=\"5\" name=\"PC\">$pc</textarea>";

You can control the value of the <textarea> using JavaScript: document.FORMNAME.pc.value.
After the Submit of the form you can do the following things with $pc:
stripslashes($pc);
htmlspecialchars($pc);

good luck.

SaS.