textarea help!!!!!!

aznjay

<? 
session_start();
$data = $_SESSION['data'];
?>
<form action="edithp.php" method="post"> 
  <div align="center"> 
    <textarea name="edithtml" type="text" cols="60" rows="20" wrap="virtual" id="edithtml">
<!-- Do not remove meta tags
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache"> 
-->
<? print ("$data") ?>
</textarea>
    <input name="Submit" type="submit" value="Update" class="buttons">
    <input type="reset" name="reset" value="Undo" class="buttons">
  </div>
</form>

My problem this time is the <? print ("$data") ?> it won't print the data that is in the mysql. It show the code in the textarea. Can you anyone help me??🙁 🙁 🙁 I want it to show in the textarea from the mysql.

AstroTeg

What does $data contain? Or what are you expecting it to contain?

aznjay

$data contains the html that was from mysql database

Weedpacket

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&postid=10406054#post10406054

AstroTeg

Originally posted by Weedpacket
http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&postid=10406054#post10406054

Good post...

aznjay: To quote the movie Short Circuit: "Need input!"

For safety, I'd recommend encoding all the "<" and ">" so you use "<" and ">" instead. This prevents "</textarea>" tag from stopping the text area input. Put at this moment, I don't know what the data you're trying to display looks like to know if this is a problem.

Verify you can echo $data BEFORE (and outside) the text area and let us know if you get text output or not. If its blank, then you have a problem with your query. If you have data, then you either have a problem with your print statement to dump the data in the text area or you have an HTML markup problem.