[SOLVED] PHP/MySQL news edit application...

[vapour_]

Hey,

 

I have been working on a news posting system for my website, and everything was fine until i created an edit application. The system runs off a database. I have the editing page set up like this:

 

top of page:

 

<?php 
include("db_connect.php");
$title = $_POST['select']; 
$query = "SELECT * FROM newsPosts WHERE title = '".$title."';";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die ( mysql_error() );
?>

 

And this is the form:

 

<?php while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){?>
          <form action="news_edit_success.php" method="post" name="newsEdit">
            <label> Title:<br>
            <input name="title" type="text" value="<?php echo $row["title"]; ?>" size="40">
            <input type="hidden" name="titlehidden" value="<?php echo $row["title"]; ?>">
            <br>
            <br>
            Message:<br>
            <textarea name="message" cols="45" rows="5" id="textfield"><?php echo $row["message"]; ?></textarea>
            <input type="hidden" name="messagehidden" value="<?php echo $row["message"]; ?>" >
            </label>
            <label>
            
            <br>
            <br>
            Posted by:<br>
            </label>
            <input name="author" type="text" value='<?php echo $row["author"]; ?>' size="30" >
            <br>
            <br>
            <br>
            <label>
            <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Update">
            </label>
            <label>
            <input type="reset" value="Reset">
            </label>
            <br>
          </form>
          <?php } ?>

 

 

So that when the form goes to the next page i can update the title and the message with a SQL query like this:

 

<?php  
include("db_connect.php"); 
$original_title = $_POST['titlehidden'];
$original_message = $_POST['messagehidden'];
$title = $_POST['title'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$author = $_POST['author'];
$query = "UPDATE newsPosts SET title = '".$title."' WHERE title = '".$original_title."' ;";
$query2 = "UPDATE newsPosts SET message = '".$message."' WHERE message = '".$original_message."';";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die ( mysql_error() );
$result2 = mysql_query($query2) or die ( mysql_error() );
?>

 

 

THE PROBLEM IS:

When i started to add DIV, BR, STRONG, P tags etc... to the message the hidden fields just spat it out into the html code instead of keeping it hidden for use on the next page. I dont know whats up with it, and i cant figure it out as i am quite new to PHP and MySQL. If i have made a stupid mistake please forgive. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.