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sketchMedia · 09-09-2008, 08:48 AM

Does the <textarea> tag have a value attribute? anyway if you want data to be displayed inside a <textarea> then you do it between the opening and closing tags, in your example:

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echo "<textarea name='txtComments' rows='2' cols='20' id='txtComments' value = '<?php $comments ?>'></textarea>";

needs to be changed to :

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echo "<textarea name='txtComments' rows='2' cols='20' id='txtComments' >$comments</textarea>";

there is also no need for '<?php $comments; ?>'.

I do think the retrieving of data could be a little better, the use of both mysql_fetch_assoc and mysql_result i can't understand.
This perhaps is a better way of doing it:

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while ($aRow = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) 
{
     echo "<textarea name='txtComments' rows='2' cols='20' id='txtComments' >" .$aRow['comments']. "</textarea>";
}

09-09-2008, 08:48 AM	#2 (permalink)
sketchMedia The Prestige Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 854 Thanks: 32	Does the <textarea> tag have a value attribute? anyway if you want data to be displayed inside a <textarea> then you do it between the opening and closing tags, in your example: PHP Code: `echo "<textarea name='txtComments' rows='2' cols='20' id='txtComments' value = '<?php $comments ?>'></textarea>";` needs to be changed to : PHP Code: `echo "<textarea name='txtComments' rows='2' cols='20' id='txtComments' >$comments</textarea>";` there is also no need for '<?php $comments; ?>'. I do think the retrieving of data could be a little better, the use of both mysql_fetch_assoc and mysql_result i can't understand. This perhaps is a better way of doing it: PHP Code: `while ($aRow = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { echo "<textarea name='txtComments' rows='2' cols='20' id='txtComments' >" .$aRow['comments']. "</textarea>"; }` __________________ mysql> SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`clue` > 0; Empty set (0.00 sec)