php strings post problem

[gavski]

Very basic!!

I have a html textarea that I post to a php page for processing.
I then need to transfer this data to another php page using an html hidden input. like this,

(page1)<textarea> name=message->post
(page2)<?php echo $message;
echo "<INPUT type hidden value='$message'>"?>
->post.
(page3)<?php echo $message; ?>

the data is displayed fine on p2 but if any colons'are in the textarea, p3 loses all the text following the colon.

Any help with this problem would be appreciated.

Thanks