[RESOLVED] Displaying my stored data

j_w_Bruce

Hi all,
I am building a menu system. I save data in a table in the following manner:

menu item menuusertype menudesc menulink
1 admin Display Menus menudisplay.php
2 admin Display Users displayusers.php
.
.
.

I get the data saved in my table fine. On my page (menudisplay.php) I do similar to the following

echo "<input name='menunumber' size=20 type=text value=".$GET['menuno']." ";
echo "<input name='menudesc' size=20 type=text value=".$GET['menudesc']." ";

This code isn't exactly like what I have working... My laptop (with all the source) is turned off right now. But the problem I'm having is this:

everything displays properly in my input boxes except 'menudesc' where I am saving a phrase with spaces in it. On 'meudesc', I'm getting ONLY the first word.

Any ideas what I might do differently.

Thanks in advance
JB

NogDog

Probably due to not having quotes around the attribute value in your HTML.

<?php
// add quotes around the value's value:
echo "<input name='menudesc' size=20 type=text value='".$_GET['menudesc']."'>";
?>

j_w_Bruce

Yes, that was easy. I thought I had tried every combination on ' and " before I posted this message.

Any idea how to make the boxes READ ONLY?

Installer

According to all the HTML references I've seen, to make a text input read only, set the readonly attribute to "readonly".

j_w_Bruce

Thanks so much. It worked great, maybe it was the sarcasm? Do you have any recommendations on where I can find a good online HTML reference so I don't post dopey questions?

Many Thanks.

Installer

There are references and tutorials for a lot of web-related stuff at w3schools.com. It's a very helpful site.

NogDog

The ultimate reference (though not the easiest to read) is the w3.org HTML 4.01 specification supplemented by the XHTML 1.0 specification if you're outputting XHTML.

suntra

I would suggest to use htmlentities() before outputting something that will be used in input...

$strValue ='This is something with "quotes" that will make some trouble ! Also, some things like accents (à, á, â, ä, é, è, ê, ë, ...) will be converted to &...; (&agrave;, ...)';
echo '<input name="fieldname" type="text" value="' . htmlentities($strValue) . '">';