[RESOLVED] Prepopulating a form

Tezread

I am updating forms by calling them back using a listbox and then echoing each field e.g.

        <td width="39%"><input type="text" name="quality_name" value="' . $row['quality_name'] . '"></td>

my question is how do you apply the above to textarea and checkbox fieldtypes. Ive tried the above appraoch but I get value= echoed as well

thx in advance

Houdini

value="<? echo $row[quality_name]; ?>"></td>

Tezread

thx Houdini- will give this a go

Tezread

it seems it is not possible to have a 'value' attrbute for text areas. This approach will not work.

HP400

Tezread

i have tried this but it results in nothing being echoed- i have made an insert!

 <td width="39%"><textarea name="local_agency" <? echo $row[local_agency]; ?></textarea></td>

HP400

Tezread

ive just spotted straight away something dodgy about the tags on the echo statement - what am i doing wrong?

HP400

You are missing the > before the <? echo

Tezread

now the textarea is populated with:

<? echo $row[local_agency]; ?>

this is my code:

<td width="39%"><textarea name="local_agency"> <? echo $row[local_agency]; ?></textarea></td>

Im wondering why some claim it is not possible to have 'value ='as an attribute for textarea?

Tezread

i think i have finally cracked it- I based my code on other input texts and took away the value attribute:

<td width="39%"><textarea name="local_agency">' . $row['local_agency'] . '</textarea></td>

if someone could verify this it would be lovely jubbly

thx in advance

Houdini

Why don't you show the form as you now have it. To see something within a textarea it must look kind of like this

<textarea name = "mytextarea" rows="20" cols="25">This will be seen in the text area and is the default value of the mytextarea of the form.</textarea>

This way you have a default value for the $_POST['mytextarea'] field

Tezread

here is part of my form with some textarea fields in it:

td width="39%"><textarea name="local_agency">' . $row['local_agency'] . '</textarea></td>

    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
          <td><strong>Contact</strong></td>
     <td width="39%"><textarea name="contact">' . $row['contact'] . '</textarea></td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  	          <td><strong>What is it?</strong></td>
     <td width="39%"><textarea name="what_is_it">' . $row['what_is_it'] . '</textarea></td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  	          <td><strong>Who and what does it apply to?</strong></td>
     <td width="39%"><textarea name="who_what_apply">' . $row['who_what_apply'] . '</textarea></td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  	          <td><strong>How does it work?</strong></td>
     <td width="39%"><textarea name="how_work">' . $row['how_work'] . '</textarea></td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  	          <td><strong>What are the resource implications</strong></td>
     <td width="39%"><textarea name="resource_implications">' . $row['resource_implications'] . '</textarea></td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  	          <td><strong>How do you meet the standards and get assessed?</strong></td>
     <td width="39%"><textarea name="how_meet_standards">' . $row['how_meet_standards'] . '</textarea></td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>