Insert Text From TEXTAREA into MySQL

[TristaSD]

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to INSERT/UPDATE text from TEXAREA into
MySQL. Because TEXAREA has no VALUE, I'm hitting a brick wall here.

Thanks!

[Rik]

TristaSD wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to INSERT/UPDATE text from TEXAREA into
MySQL. Because TEXAREA has no VALUE, I'm hitting a brick wall here.

Euhm, I have no clue what a TEXAREA is, but for a textarea's it's pretty
straight forward. Echo existing content between the tags, and just read
$_POST['name of your textarea'] if the form method is post....
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_textarea.asp
Grtz,
--
Rik Wasmus

[TristaSD]

Rik,

Could you give me an example? I'm not following you.
Rik wrote:

TristaSD wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to INSERT/UPDATE text from TEXAREA into
MySQL. Because TEXAREA has no VALUE, I'm hitting a brick wall here.

Euhm, I have no clue what a TEXAREA is, but for a textarea's it's pretty
straight forward. Echo existing content between the tags, and just read
$_POST['name of your textarea'] if the form method is post....
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_textarea.asp
Grtz,
--
Rik Wasmus

[Rik]

TristaSD wrote:

Could you give me an example? I'm not following you.

1. Learn to quote.
2. some pseudocode, I'm not going to write it all out, protect against SQL
injection, and so on:

<?php

if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
mysql_query("UPDATE table SET field='".$_POST['my_textfield']."' WHERE
something");
} else {
$field= mysql_query('SELECT field FROM table WHERE something');
echo "<textarea name='my_textfield'>$field</textarea>";
}
?>

Grtz,
--
Rik Wasmus

[Ahazu]

<textarea name="text" rows="15" cols="40"></textarea><br/>