Thanks, it worked with a slight tweak.
printf("<tr><td><textarea cols=50 rows=5 name=status
>%s</textarea></td></tr>\n", ($formValues) ? $formValues["status"] :"");
RB
-----Original Message-----
From: afan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 4:34 PM
To: Rasna Baruah
Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Text area
Try this:
printf("<tr><td><textarea cols=50 rows=5
name=status>%s</textarea></td></tr>\n", $row["status"]);
afan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rasna Baruah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tomasz Abramowicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 1:29 PM
Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] Text area
> Thanks but I'm afraid it didn't work, I a get parse error (expecting
> `T_STRING' or `T_VARIABLE' or `T_NUM_STRING' ). My line of code is
> printf("<tr><td><textarea cols=50 rows=5 name=status><? echo
$row["status"];
> ?></textarea></td></tr>\n", ($formValues) ? $formValues["status"] :"");
>
> RB
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tomasz Abramowicz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 1:10 PM
> To: Rasna Baruah; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Text area
>
>
> <TEXTAREA rows="10" cols="10">
> <?
>
> echo $row["textarea_db"];
>
> ?>
> </TEXTAREA>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rasna Baruah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 10:05 PM
> Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] Text area
>
>
> > I haven't been able to find any clear answer to the question regarding
> > "textarea". Can anybody help? I am not being able to bring data from a
> > database into a textarea, it works fine if is is just <input type=text>.
> >
> > Thanks
> > RB
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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