Can't display html text-input

mosizlak

I have these rows displayed in an html table within a form:

print "<TD align='left'><INPUT name='tomvote' type=checkbox></TD>";
print "<TD align='left'><INPUT name='code' type=text</TD>";
print "<TD align='left'><INPUT type='hidden' name='rpt_id' value='" .$row["rpt_id"]."'></TD>";

When the user hits the submit button it loads a new page:

print "tomvote: " .$POST[tomvote]. "<BR>" ;
print "code: " .$POST

. "<BR>" ;
print "rpt_id: " .$_POST[rpt_id]. "<BR>" ;

The problem is that I can display the values of the checkbox and the hidden input, but I can't get the text input to display.  

Any ideas out there?

Thanks in advance.
mosizlak

Anon

close the input tag (have added a pair of high commas,too):

print "<TD align='left'><INPUT name='code' type='text'></TD>";

maybe that was it.

ali

mosizlak

that missing ">" was pretty dumb. Thanks for pointing it out to me. but the mofo still didn't work.

I'm wondering if my mistake is here:

print "code: " .$_POST

. "<BR>" ;

Is there a special way that I'm missing to access a POST element when comes from a text-input?

Anon

your code looks alright to me. But did you try accessing it by $code or HTTP_POST_VARS['code'] ? And by the way: which php-version are you running?

ali

mosizlak

//your code looks alright to me. But did you try accessing it by $code or HTTP_POST_VARS['code'] ?

yup. both of them, not to mention about a thousand variations. this is killing me!

//And by the way: which php-version are you running?

4.2.1

So basically I'm able to display some of $_POST's elements but not all of them.

I'm a total novice to html as well as php so I'm not even sure where the mistake is: maybe there's something wrong with the html form?

mosizlak

I just tried this:

on the first page, in the html form/table, I added value='xxx' to my text input tag named 'code'.

I then submitted the page and was able to display the $_POST

's value 'xxx'.

However this won't do because the whole point is to allow user input into the text input box.

btw ali I appreciate the help.  You're good people.