get text from textarea

[Anon]

Hi all,
I would want to put in one variable the value of a textarea of one page
Html.
How I can make with the php?

Thankx, Tommyknockers
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[Anon]

Hi its simple
like you are define somthng like:
<textarea ... name='text1'....>
and in php script you having a $text1 variable

[Anon]

Best Regards.
Thanks a lot for the council but I meant an other thing, now I try to explain:
I have two pages: a page HTML with a textarea and an other page in
php.
What I would want to make is to try to put the value of the texarea (than it is found in paginia the HTML) in one variable of the
page in PHP; or better, the Php page to take the value of the textarea of an other page HTML.
I hope of to have been clear, thanks for the
aid.

Tommy

[Anon]

I do not quite understand what you want to do, so I suggest... correct me if I'm wrong...
you want PHP to give a variable the value of an textarea of a different HTML Page like $textvar = htmlfile.textarea.value; ???
That can't be accomplished, I suggest you know what server-side means... if you don't have a look at some PHP Tutorials and than you will understand why there is no other way than the one Lauri told you to get the value of a textarea in an PHP-Variable

Second suggestion, you want to parse a different HTML Page, taking some Values out... There are many ways to do that ... I use fopen

fopen("http://www.the_domain.com/the_file_you_want.html", "r") that is probably not the best solution, but it works fine for me and I only needed it once ...

Hope that helps
cya Rob

[Anon]

Ok now at least I succeed to put in variable an entire page HTML, and
we are near the solution.
I use this code(special thanks to Rob.D):

$filename = "try.html";
$fd = fopen ($filename, "r");
$pippo = fread ($fd, filesize ($filename));
fclose ($fd);

...but it is possible to take single the value of a textarea to the inside of this page without to filter the source of entire page HTML?

Best regards,
Tommy

[Anon]

thats the problem with parsing... as long as you know that the page doesn't change, you can search in the string you've got for something like '<textarea name="name_of_textarea"' and then pull out the value of the textarea. I've done it once (mentioned above)but I was parsing a Site that I build, so it wasn't that hard to do...

But if the site you parse changes often (especially the part with the textarea, and thats probably the case if you look for such a solution) you (can) face a lot of problems ...

Hope that sort of problem vanishes with XML getting more supported :-))

cya Rob