PHP multi line fields in forms

Sawan

Hello
I am new to php and these forums and was wondering if someone could help me with my form. I am trying to create a multi line field for it. I know about the <textarea> tag, but do not quite know how to got this to work in my php program. Are there any othjer tags i can use.

Thanks in advance

hitman6003

The only way to get a large area for text input is with textarea...it works similar to the input type=text tag, but also different:

<textarea name="name" cols="30" rows="10">Default entry text</textarea>

The rows and cols determine the size of the box...rows is height, cols is width

drew010

you can use any type of form field, text, file, checkbox, radio etc.
when a form is posted the values become available in the $POST array.
if you had a text field named 'username', after they submit the form, $POST['username'] contains whatever the user had typed in the box.
www.zend.com/php/beginners/ is a good place to start learning

Sawan

Thanks for your quick response, but when i use that tag you gave me i get this error.

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '<' in /home/admin/domains/c4classified.net/public_html/form5.php on line 9

echo "<form action='processform.php' method='POST'>
<table width='95%' border='0' cellspacing='0'
cellpadding='2'>\n";
{
<textarea name="name" cols="30" rows="10">Default entry text</textarea>

echo "</table>
<div align='center'><p><input type='submit' value='Submit Address'> </p></div>
</form>";

}

The above is part of my program, can you see any errors.

Thanks.

leatherback

You need to place backslashes before the double quotes, or use single quotes.

Sawan

I am still getting the same error, after using single quotes, thanks for your help, do you have any idea what is going on.

leatherback

You need:

echo "<form action='processform.php' method='POST'>
<table width='95%' border='0' cellspacing='0'
cellpadding='2'>\n

<textarea name=\"name\" cols=\"30\" rows=\"10\">Default entry text</textarea>

</table>
<div align='center'><p><input type='submit' value='Submit Address'> </p></div>
</form>";

I suppose?

hitman6003

your missing some other sytax stuff:

echo "<form action='processform.php' method='POST'>
          <table width='95%' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='2'>
          <textarea name='name' cols='30' rows='10'>Default entry text</textarea>\n";

echo "</table><div align='center'><p><input type='submit' value='Submit Address'></p></div></form>";

Sawan

Thanks, much apprecited. How would i call on the output of this, would it be $_post['name].