Textarea not submitting with form

davidf85

I am using <textarea> in a form, and calling it in a script using
$_Post['comment']
The form does not seem to be submitting the value in textarea.
The code I am using is:
<textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="36" rows="5" wrap="off"></textarea>

I am also using a javascript to submit the form, using
function submit ()
{
document.login.submit() ;
}

Should this work?

dagon

its $POST not $Post

davidf85

I am using _POST, but it is not working

bradgrafelman

Can you show us the smallest example you're trying that doesn't work? Post the complete code so we can test it.

Copy-and-paste works best, because as dagon pointed out your first post mentioned $Post, which is definitely not the same as $POST.

davidf85

The form action code is:
<?php

$name = $POST['name'];
$comment = $POST['comment'];

$output = "NAME: \t".$name."\tCOMMENT:\t".$comment."\n";

$handle = fopen("d:\hshome\c239198\local54memberforum.com\info.txt", "ab");
fwrite($handle, $output);
echo "<p>COMMENT SUBMITTED</P>";

The Javascript is:
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">

function submit ()
{
document.login.submit() ;
}

</script>

With
<input type="hidden" name="supporttype" />
<a href="javascript:submit()">Submit Comment</a><br>

As the submit link.

When I use this script WITHOUT the Javascript, it works, but for some reason with the javascript, the "name" input is working, but the <textarea> input is not.

dagon

Do you need the js? What's the problem with using a form submit button?

bradgrafelman

Can you show us the HTML form you use with that?