Help with Text areas

[aldo2004]

Hi , I'm new on this forum, I will like to know if there is a way to paste text on a textarea of a webpage that is already loaded 😕

[TheDefender]

Huh? Can you elaborate on exactly what it is you want to do? It sounds like what you want to do isn't PHP related, but I don't want to go on any further until you clarify yourself.

[aldo2004]

When you have an input on a form , you can add a value to it using setattribute. And if it is a text box, the value will be displayed on the box.

Text areas doesn't seem to use the value attribute, so I will like to know if I can add a value to a textarea doing something similar.

Maybe it is not pure php, but I need to do that to complete a php script

[TheDefender]

This adds a value to a textarea:

<textarea>Input value here between opening and closing tags</textarea>

[aldo2004]

yes , I know, whatt I want is to put the input value there after the page is loaded using php.

btw , I'm using php from command line

[TheDefender]

You need to elaborate more than... Is this what you want to know?

<textarea name="whatever"><?php echo $inputvalue; ?></textarea>

I mean, if you already know this is how to add value, then what exactly do you need help with?

[Erestar]

If you really mean "after the page is loaded" then you can't do it using PHP. You'll need to make use of the browsers scripting stuff.

For instance, if you've got a textarea with id='MyTextArea', you could do something like:

<script>
function setText(str) {
document.getElementById('MyTextArea').value = str;

}

This is all in the HTML that the browser gets though, and has nothing to do with PHP.

Erestar

[aldo2004]

Thx for the help, maybe I wasn't clear at all.

I use this for a text input box

$filename->document->body->all['inputname']->setAttribute('value', $inputvalue);

and it adds the info to the text box when it gets the info needed on a page that is already loaded.
The text area seems to not have the value attribute so I can't do it this way 🙁
I need a command that do something similar but with textarea.

[Erestar]

Hi,
I think we're really on different pages here... I can't see any reason why that code you've provided would work anywhere, and I'm still not sure exactally where you're expecting it to execute.

Unless you're using a hidden frame to request some data and re-populate the text area with data retrieved or something, I can't think of any way that PHP could change the value of the text area after the page is loaded. Are we talking about the same thing here? When you say "after the page is loaded" I was assuming that this is after the entire page is downloaded to the user's browser, and all of the PHP has been intrepreted.

Are you using some kind of PHP class representation of HTML or something? If so, you'll need to check the documentation for how the textarea object works.

As far as the Javascript I was talking about earlier though, in DHTML, value is defined. Here's some test code I just wrote in 2 seconds to make sure. It works as I thought it would.

<textarea id="MyText">
</textarea>

<script>
document.getElementById('MyText').value = "Tesing";
</script>

Not sure if I'm going to be able to help you since I'm still not sure what's going on 😉

Let me know though !

Erestar

[aldo2004]

Originally posted by Erestar
Are you using some kind of PHP class representation of HTML or something? If so, you'll need to check the documentation for how the textarea object works.

As far as the Javascript I was talking about earlier though, in DHTML, value is defined. Here's some test code I just wrote in 2 seconds to make sure. It works as I thought it would.

<textarea id="MyText">
</textarea>

<script>
document.getElementById('MyText').value = "Tesing";
</script>

Not sure if I'm going to be able to help you since I'm still not sure what's going on 😉

Let me know though !

Erestar

More less what I'm trying to do is to copy info from a webpage to a form on another webpage. I want to use PHP to get info from one and put it on the other .

What is PHP class representation of HTML ?

the javascript seems somehow near to what I need

[Erestar]

I don't think I'm going to be able to help you with a "more or less" scenario. One of us really isn't understanding the other here, so unless you can tell me exactally what you're trying to do then I can't give any more advice.

Erestar

[aldo2004]

ok.
There is webpage A :

<form method="post" action="form.php">
<input type="hidden" name="do" value="somevalue" />
<textarea name="inputarea" rows="5" cols="10"></textarea>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

and there is a webpage B , which could be any type.

I got PHP running on my computer, and I want it to locate some info on webpage B and put it into webpage A text area. That's it.

[aldo2004]

Well, I find out how to do it :p

Thanks for the help

$webA->document->body->all['inputarea']->insertAdjacentText(beforeEnd, $info);