passing value from a textarea

[adnan1983]

I have been trying to pass values from a text area, and since textarea doesn't have the value field it's making it really hard to pass the values. Pass values from one page to another, I am using a form. any suggestions?

echo "<tr>";
			echo "<td width= 100>Comments</td>";
			//echo "<td width= 500 valign= top>".htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($fetch["comments"]))."</td>";
			echo "<td width= 500><textarea cols=60 rows=7 name=comments[]>".htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($fetch["comments"]))."</textarea></td>";
			echo "</tr>";
[CODE]

[cgraz]

textarea's don't have a value attribute, but they do have values.

<textarea name="bla" rows="6" cols="40">text</textarea>

The above textarea, bla, has a value of "text". When the form is submitted, I will have access to variable $_POST['bla'] (assuming the method on the form is POST) with a value of "text"

Cgraz

[adnan1983]

so, I can make "name=comments[]", it an array if I want to and it will pass the value?

Adnan.

[cgraz]

yeah, except put the quotes just around the name so it's

name="comments[]"

rather than

"name=comments[]"

Cgraz

[adnan1983]

thanks man, if I have some problems with it I shall write back again.

Adnan.

[adnan1983]

I tried to do as you mentioned earlier, but when it fetchs from the database it only pass back the first word from the comments fields, where their can multiple lines in the comments field.

echo "<td width= 500><textarea cols=60 rows=7 name=[]>".htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($fetch["comments"]))."</textarea></td>";

[adnan1983]

need help with this problem people. Any suggestions please?

[cgraz]

I'd need to see more code. Have you tried echoing the variable outside of the textarea to see whether or not it returns the first word or everything?

Also, for the name, the name is just brackets []

should be something like comments[] where you'd be letting php know that variable $comments is an array.

Cgraz

[adnan1983]

That's code I have, I had changed certain things after I posted that reply. This is wat the code looks like, and then I when I hit submit it goes to the next page, and shows me the result. But it still takes only the first in.

		for ($i = 0; $i < $rows; $i++) 
		{

		$fetch = mysql_fetch_array($result);

		echo "<input type=hidden name=id[] value=".$fetch["id"].">";

		echo "<table style=border:1px solid #6B757B; font-size: 8pt; word-spacing: 1; margin-top: 1; margin-bottom: 3>";
		echo "<tr>";
		echo "<td width= 100>Name</td>";
		echo "<td width= 500><input type=text name=name[] value=".htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($fetch["name"]))."></td>";
		echo "</tr>";

		echo "<tr>";
		echo "<td width= 100>Email</td>";
		echo "<td width= 500><input type=text name=email[] value=".htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($fetch["email"]))."></td>";
		echo "</tr>";

		echo "<tr>";
		echo "<td width= 100>City</td>";
		echo "<td width= 500><input type=text name=city[] value=".htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($fetch["city"]))."></td>";
		echo "</tr>";

		echo "<tr>";
		echo "<td width= 100>Referred</td>";
		echo "<td width= 500><input type=text name=referred[] value=".htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($fetch["referred"]))."></td>";
		echo "</tr>";

		echo "<tr>";
		echo "<td width= 100>Comments</td>";
		echo "<td width= 500><textarea cols=60 rows=7 name=[]>".htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($fetch["comments"]))."</textarea></td>";
		echo "</tr>";

		echo "</table>";
		echo "<p><hr size=1 width=600 align=left noshade></p>"; 
	}

			echo "<input type=submit name=store value=Update> <br>";
			echo "</form>";

[adnan1983]

oh and the name=comments[], I do have on my code now.

What my code is basically doin right now is retrieving the data from the database, and populating the textarea? But it only stores the first word in the array.

[adnan1983]

alrite, got it to work. Thanks for all your help man, really appreciate it.

Adnan.