How to populate form fields from database

[senthil]

Hi:

Sorry for asking question such as this one, I'm relatively new to php.

Could any one tell me how to populate a bunch of fields in a form? I have a page where user enters his information. If a user wants to edit his information, I want to fetch all his details from the database and display it for editing. Is there anything like the stuff we use in javascript, document.form1.text1.value?

Thank you.
Senthil

[jacob_kochi]

<input type="text" name="name" value="<?=$name?>">