Textarea Value

[Anon]

I'm creating an online survey and using textarea forms to update the questions and answers. I can't seem to get the values of the textareas. For example:

<textarea rows=4 cols=50 name="fiveQ"><?php echo $question ?></text>

I've checked to see if I could retrieve the textarea value with:

echo $fiveQ;

but no output. It's simply blank. I took off the quotations on the name of the textarea, yet still same outcome. Anybody know why?

[van__]

hmm... not much to go on
when in doubt, be explicit:
<? echo $GLOBALS['HTTP_POST_VARS']['fiveQ']; ?>

[shmony]

I'm not sure, but I think that the textarea tag ends like this: </textarea>
that might be why it's not working.

[fitzbean]

Yup, it is </textarea> and definately the problem.