Send Text from textarea to a form

[PHPstarter]

With form i dont mean file submit form.
It is just a custom 'file box' i created.

I have an upload file site where you input file, description etc.

How is it possible to make so that the text put into an <input> area with name/id="sendInfo" will be put into the custom form in a field called 'getInfo' ?

Thanks in advance if anyone can please show me an example of just this.

[Atli]

Hi.

Are you talking about just moving the text from one field into another one on the same page as you type it?
If that is the case then:

<input onkeyup="document.getElementByID('other').value = this.value" />

If not, please elaborate. Examples are always helpful.

P.S. That is a Javascript solution, and as such depends on a browser capable/willing to execute Javascript... but that's not really a problem these days.

[PHPstarter]

It is not on the same page of the site.

example:
Page one: file_uploader.php

Page two: file_list.php

in file_uploader.php you can upload a file as well as enter text into text areas for example to input file_author, description etc.

in file_list.php there is a table set that will have the results of what was inputted into the text areas from file_uploader.php,

so that when you finally click 'upload' or whatever i may call the button, all the info is relayed via php and pasted into the file_list table.

So what I really need is an example of how to do this, send whatever may be in a field named/id=file_author from file_uploader.php to another field with the same name/id (if that works) in file_list.php

thanks

[dlite922]

http://www.tizag.com/phpT/fileupload.php

is that what you need? how to upload files?

change your file_upload.php form's action to file_list.php. Get the file info and _POST info as you would normally.

basic PHP/programming knowledge is required.

Thanks,



Dan

[PHPstarter]

The focus isnt really as much on the actual 'file' upload, but there are other textareas inside the form that contain text submitted by the file uploader.

the thing im really asking about is how to make that text transfer along with the file into the file_list?
there is a mold i created with tables that will contain the file download and file info.

[dlite922]

All your other form inputs should work with $_POST.

You can use $_POST along with $_FILE.

Is that what you're asking?

I'm not sure what you mean by make text transfer along the file into file_list.

"file_list": why a list?, do you have multiple file uploads?



Dan

[Atli]

Ok, not sure I quite follow you, but let me try...

Lets say you have a form that uploads an image, and a name for that image:

<form action="process.php" method="post" enctype="mutlipart/form-data">
  <input type="file" name="theImage" /><br />
  <input type="text" name="theCaption" /><br />
  <input type="submit" />
</form>

And then, in the process.php file, you simply show the image, headed by the caption:

<?php
$filePath = "c:\\tmp\\" .. $_FILES['theImage']['name'];
move_uploaded_file($_FILES['theImage']['tmp_name'], $filePath);
?>
<div>
  <h1><?php echo $_POST['theCaption']; ?></h1>
  <img src="<?php echo $filePath ?>" alt="The Image" />
</div>

Is that what you are after?

Or are you perhaps talking about creating a list of items that have already been uploaded?