Displaying database fields to a form

[Anon]

Just learning the php/mySQL stuff and have a question on why a field is not displaying the whole content. I have developed a form to add/update information to a mySQL database. When I come to the form and if the information has already been entered before, I am displaying the database fields in the form. One field is a name field carrying both first and last name. When it displays in it's form text box it is only displaying the first name. How do I get it to display the full first/last name in the text box?

Here is the code for displaying the form:

echo("<tr><td width=10% align=right><font color=$pagecol\n size=3><b>Team Rep:</b></font></td>");

echo("<td width=40% colspan=5><input type=text name=teamrep size=40 value=$rnam\n></td>");

$rnam is set from the database field brought in by my SQL.
Thanks in advance for the help!!!

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my guess is that space is screwing up the html because the values aren't enclosed in quotes. Try this:

echo("<td width=\"40%\" colspan=\"5\"><input type=\"text\" name=\"teamrep\" size=\"40\" value=\"$rnam\"\n></td>");

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By the way, if you hate having to use the backslash, single quotes will work the same way with any browser that I've come across. It's just not a good habit to ignore the quotes all together. HTML is very lenient and will assume a string follows an equal sign. If the string has a space or special character in it, it will most likely assume that the string has finished and ignore the rest. My advice... if you want your code to work on all browsers all of the time, use the \" with PHP.
Good luck.