Textarea echo

alanpollenz

I am having a small problem with a form I am using. The output of the form is written to a textfile upon successful completion of the form. All fields on the forms are required to be completed, and if the user submits the form without all the fields completed, they are returned to the form.

I would like all fields that they HAVE completed to be carried forward to the new form, and it works great with text fields, but not with textarea fields.

My textarea fields look like this:

This is similar to the way my input type=text fields are setup, and they work. Any ideas?

Thanks

shastry

Hi,
try with this..
<textarea name=summary rows=3 cols=60 wrap=soft><? echo $suummary; ?></textarea>

I hope this will solve your problem.

--Shastry

alanpollenz

Shastry,

Thanks, that did the trick. I also tried to apply this to radio button entries, but it didn't work. What I currently have is:

<tr><td> <input type="radio" name="title" value="Captain"> Captain <input type="radio" name="title" value="First Officer"> First Officer </td></tr>

and when I applied your textarea fix it looked like:

<tr><td> <input type="radio" name="title" value="Captain"> Captain <input type="radio" name="title" value="First Officer"> First Officer <? echo $title; ?> </td></tr>

What this caused to happen was when all fields were not filled in, but the "title" field was filled in, and the form was submitted, the actual value (Captain or First Officer) was echoed rather than the appropriate radio button filled in. It looked like:

(button) Captain (button) First OfficerCaptain or
(button) Captain (button) First OfficerFirst Officer

Thanks again.

Weedpacket

Well, that's because radio buttons are different from text areas. Text areas contain text, radio buttons can only be checked or not checked. HTML 101.

If you want it to be filled in,

<input type="radio" name="title" value="Captain" checked>

You need to have PHP look to see if the "checked" needs to be written in, and do so if necessary.

<input type="radio" name="title" value="Captain" <?php if($title=='Captain') echo 'checked'?>>

alanpollenz

Weedpacket,

Thanks. That did the trick.

🙂