Little help please

[Alex_B]

Hello,
I am pretty new at PHP and trying to do form validation.
I do have a textarea there. So my script validates content and if any of required fields are missing it redirect back to the same page( pretty simple). The problem is that my textarea field does not hold data that was entered at the beginning.
For example lets say that I have form with two input fields
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<FORM action='".$PHP_SELF."' method='post'>
<INPUT TYPE='TEXT' NAME='employer' value='$POST['employer']>
<textarea name='desc' cols='45' rows='20' value='".$POST['desc']."'></textarea>

<INPUT TYPE='SUBMIT' name='submit' value='submit'>

If I comeback to the same page the value of 'employer' will be there, yet value of 'desc' will be missing.

Is there an easy solution?

[cgraz]

in HTML, a textarea tag has no value attribute, therefore,

<textarea name='desc' cols='45' rows='20' value='".$_POST['desc']."'></textarea>

would be incorrect. If you want to have the value be in the textarea, you have to put the $POST variable within the <textarea> </textarea> tags like this

echo "<textarea name='desc' cols='45' rows='20'>" . $_POST['desc'] . "</textarea>";

Cgraz

[Alex_B]

Thank you Cgraz,
It works just fine now.