how to get javascript to php

[Anon]

When I type into textarea, and click the "submit button," the "javascript variable" that holds what the visitor typed is this:
document.form1.textarea.value

My question is: On that next page that appears, how can I store that Javascript variable in a PHP variable?

I mean, do I put the php stuff into my javascript tags? Nothing I try seems to work. Here is an example of what I tried:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<?php
$my_variable = "document.form1.textarea.value";
?>
</SCRIPT

but, of course, that doesn't work.

You may ask why I want to do this? Well, the reason is that after Javascript is used (I MUST use Javascript for programming reasons), I want PHP to store that variable into a mySQL database.

[bastien]

the textarea must have some name. php will take that name and create a variable. so

<input textarea name= soemthing>

will have a php variable on submit of $something

hth

bastien

[theslinky]

Yes, exactly what Bastien said.

Although I prefer using: $_GET['something'] instead of $something because 1) it's good coding style and 2) in versions of PHP after 4.2.1, I hear register globals is going to be deprecated for security reasons.

-sridhar