why wont the entire string display in the textbox?

synergy

I've got a page that reads variables from the database and displays them in text boxes. I've noticed that if I have a string with multiple words and spaces, that it only displays the first word of the string in the text box, even tho the string is like it should be in the database.

For example:

Twin Turbo
displays:
Twin

[Here's the code:

print "<input type='text' name='model' value=".$myrow['Model'].">\n";

Any ideas?

diego25

Look at the source code of the HTML, does it have one or two words? If it has 2 words, then it's a HTML problem (quotes are mismatched, or something like that). If it there is only one, then check your database. Maybe you're storing only the first word for some reason?

Diego

cgraz

it's just as diego said, you need to add single quotes around your value

change

print "<input type='text' name='model' value=".$myrow['Model'].">\n";

print "<input type='text' name='model' value='".$myrow['Model']."'>\n";

Cgraz

synergy

Originally posted by cgraz
it's just as diego said, you need to add single quotes around your value

change

print "<input type='text' name='model' value=".$myrow['Model'].">\n";

to

print "<input type='text' name='model' value='".$myrow['Model']."'>\n";

Cgraz

Sounds like that would fix it. Thanks so much for all the help you've provided me cgraz. Seems like one of the biggest problems I've had with PHP is learning where to put single and double quotes!!

diego25

In this case, though, the single qoute is for HTML, not for PHP; and then double quote is for PHP.

Diego

synergy

worked. Thanks guys.

CoB-Himself

echo "<input type='text' name='model' value=\"".$myrow['Model']."\">\n";

If you add the \" you will get the same output. It just needs to have the quotes around it.