[SOLVED] help with form and textarea......please....

[meomike2000]

i have created a simple messenger with php.... to enter message i have used a simple html form with some input areas and one textarea to type the message in. all that works great...

 

problem is that i have a reply page and on that form it fills in the proper information and i would like to be able to put the original message infor in that form,

 

problem i have is that i would like to have a couple of blank lines at the top of the textarea and then display the message data.... no matter what i try it will not work....

 

anybody have a fix for this...

 

thanks mike....

[haku]

default="\n\n Default text"

 

I think that should do what you want.

[meomike2000]

would this be what you mean.....

 

<textarea rows="5" cols="50" wrap=hard name="message" default="\n\n reply to"></textarea><br>

 

cause that dont work...... nothing changed.

 

also have tried....

 

<textarea rows="5" cols="50" wrap=hard name="message">default="\n\n reply to"</textarea>

 

and that actually displays in the box: default="\n\n reply to" ...

 

 

[lonewolf217]

i am making the assumption here that you are passing the original message via a form

 

<?php
$desc = "<br><hr>Original Message:<br>" . $_POST['description'];
?>

<textarea rows="5" cols="50" wrap=hard name="message" >
<?php
echo $desc
?>
</textarea>

 

Try this to see if it will work for you

 

></textarea><br>

[meomike2000]

no......

i used this....

 

$message = "<br><br>".$row[1]." said// ".$row[3];

 

and it prints:  <br><br>deb said// test new message

in the box......

[meomike2000]

<textarea type="text/html" rows="5" cols="50" wrap=hard name="message">';

echo $message;

'</textarea><br>

<br>

 

this is what i put and it still didnt work......

[lonewolf217]

thats wierd, it worked fine for me.  not sure what else to try

[meomike2000]

the page is wrote in php, and this is what the page looks like.....

 

/open connection to database server.
$connection = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) or die ('unable to connect!');

//select  database to use.
mysql_select_db($db) or die ('unable to select database!');

$query = "select fr_uid, fruser, sub, mess from messages where touid = '" . $userid . "' and mid = '".$mid."'";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die ('error getting page info:' . mysql.error());

$row = mysql_fetch_row($result);

$message = "<br><br>".$row[1]." said// ".$row[3];
$error = $_SESSION['error'];
$error_string = $error; 
$userid;
echo 	$error_string. '<br >
<form method="post" action="send_mess.php?userid=' .$userid. '">reply to message # '.$mid.'<br>

    To:   <input type="text" name="to" size="30" value="'.$row[1].'"><br>
<br>
Subject:   <input type="text" name="subj" size="30" value="RE: '.$row[2].'"><br>
<br>
<textarea type="text/html" rows="5" cols="50" wrap=hard name="message">';
//echo $message;
'</textarea><br>
<br>
<input type="submit" name"submess" value="send">     <input type="reset" value="clear"><br>
</form>';


unset ($_SESSION['error']);


?>

 

what else could couse it to not work......

[meomike2000]

if i set it up like this it works somewhat.....

 

$message = '


'.$row[1].' said// '.$row[3];

 

the problem is when i put the html in, it displays what i type instead of knowing that it is html code......  would still like some help here... never had to do this before now.....

 

thanks mike.......

[lonewolf217]

ignore my previous solution, I tested it incorrectly on my end.  This however should work

 

<?php
echo "\n\n" . $message;
?>

[meomike2000]

yes that way did work.... thank you so much for the help......