pass value to textbox

[janice]

Hi Do anyone noe how to pass in value retrieve from database and put in in d textbox value???

[Weedpacket]

Have you got it out of the database?

<input type="text" name="something" value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($textboxvalue)?>">

[janice]

yup i did retrieve the result field from the database...but i duno how to display it into a textbox.....

<input type="text" name="something" value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($textboxvalue)?>">

the $textboxvalue izit mean by the value i retrieve from the dtabase?

a temp place to post my result rite.... =)

[Weedpacket]

Yes. (That is what you want to display, after all, isn't it?) I just called it $textboxvalue because I had no idea what you were calling it.

[stuartc1]

<?php echo htmlspecialchars($textboxvalue)?>

Weedpacket, question time....
Is it better to use <?php echo ... ?> that to use <?= ... ?> ? if so why? I know that PEAR like to use <?php every time it opens a php tag but why the echo instead of the = ?