Displaying MySQL Text fields in a form

[rcoursey]

What is the best way to get a text field into a form for editing? I tried a method recommended earlier which worked well for input fields but does not show anything for text fields.

[bootcom]

Entering initial values into a textarea is slightly different, please see the below code for guidence.

<textarea name="textarea"> <? echo "$username"; ?> </textarea>

Hope this helps

[daphreeek]

I asume you mean textareas. Its actually very simple:

echo "<textarea name='mytextbox'.....>$text</textarea>";

The default text goes between the opening and closing tags 🙂

• Matt

[rcoursey]

My goal is to retrieve the "text" from a text field in MySQL. It would then display in a form text box where editing could take place.

I know how to get it into the db from a form.

What are the gotchas for storing URL's, directory paths, and HTML markup in these fields. The info will eventually be retrieved and used for display with all markup working.

Thanks,
Richard