textarea predefined text

humbis

Hey how are you guys?
Well I have a little question.
How can I add predefined text to this textarea? :S .
Thanks in advanced :D.

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 <tr>

        <td><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2" class="infoBox">

          <tr class="infoBoxContents">

            <td><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">

              <tr>

                <td><?php echo tep_draw_textarea_field('comments', 'soft', '60', '5', $comments); ?></td>

              </tr>

            </table></td>

          </tr>

        </table></td>

      </tr>

Atli

Hi.

Is that function meant to create your textarea?
If so, you would have to edit that function.

You could simply add a parameter for the predefined text, and have it added when the function prints the textarea.

humbis

Hrmm, okay I see.
You think the function could be <tr class="infoBoxContents"> by any chance?
And thanks for replying so fast!

Atli

Nope, that would be the top of a table row :)

The function I suspect is creating your textarea is tep_draw_textarea_field.
Do you have that anywhere?

In any case, a simpler, albeit less elegant, way to do this would be to just put the textarea into a PHP variable before echoing it and injecting your text.

Somewhat like:

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<?php

// The text that should be added

$predefinedText = "Hello, this is some text to inject into the textarea.\n\n";
 
$originalArea = tep_draw_textarea_field('comments', 'soft', '60', '5', $comments);

echo preg_replace('/(<textarea[^>]*>)/i', '$1'.$predefinedText, $originalArea);

?>