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.

<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:

<?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);
?>

[humbis]

Awsome!
I will give this a try right away, thank you very much.
I'll reply with results.

[humbis]

Yay.
Worked very well!!!!
You rock Atli :D.
Thank you very much, I hope to stay in this community, and later on help others.

[Atli]

I'm glad it worked!
Hope I'll be seeing you around :)