[SOLVED] Not recieving the value from the form

[Anxious]

I have done echo fields where the form is processed, and its not receiving an value..

 

In the form, I have this code

 <?php if($form->value("likes") == ""){
   echo $database->getUserProfileInfo['likes'];
}else{
   echo $form->value("likes");
} ?>

The above code works, however...

 

 <?php if($form->value("dislikes") == ""){
   echo $database->getUserProfileInfo['dislikes'];
}else{
   echo $form->value("dislikes");
} ?>

The above code doesn't.

The form action is process.php, so I put an echo in and it doesn't recieve the values... Yet both codes are exactly the same setout, as I've been reading the code for 5-6 days now. Just don't understand why it don't recieve the values.

 

It seems to be a big problem, I would deeply appreciate it if someone can assist me.

[Anxious]

Any idea's guys? I've been trying to do it and I've not succeeded. I've even changed it to just

 

echo $form->value("dislikes")

 

which never worked..

[ILMV]

What form method are you using, get? post?

 

Seeing your HTML code for the form would help.

[Anxious]

Its POST.

I don't understand why it all works, except the "Dislikes" and "Music" section

 

 <form action="process.php" method="POST">
    <table width="708" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
      <tr>
        <td width="151">Profile Header:</td>
        <td width="377"><input name="slogan" type="text" value="
<?php if($form->value("slogan") == ""){
   echo $database->getUserProfileInfo['slogan'];
}else{
   echo $form->value("slogan");
} ?>" size="60" maxlength="100"></td>
      </tr>
  <tr>
  <td><br>
  Full Name:</td>
  <Td><p> <br>
  <input name="fullname" type="text" value="<?php if($form->value("fullname") == ""){
  echo $database->getUserProfileInfo['fullname'];
  }else{
  echo $form->value("fullname");
  } ?>" size="60" maxlength="100">
      <tr>
        <td><br>
          Location:</td>
        <td><p> <br>
                <input name="profilelocation" type="text" value="<?php if($form->value("profilelocation") == ""){
   echo $database->getUserProfileInfo['profilelocation'];
}else{
   echo $form->value("profilelocation");
} ?>" size="60" maxlength="100">
        </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><br>
          School/Job</td>
        <td><p> <br>
                <input name="schooljob" type="text" value="<?php if($form->value("schooljob") == ""){
   echo $database->getUserProfileInfo['schooljob'];
}else{
   echo $form->value("schooljob");
} ?>" size="60" maxlength="100">
        </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><br>
          Martial Status</td>
        <td><p> <br>
                <select name="status" value="value""<?php if($form->value("status") == ""){
echo $database->getUserProfileInfo['status'];
}else{
echo $form->value("status");
} ?>">
                  <option value="" selected></option>
			  <option value="Not Saying"></option>
                  <option value="Single">Single</option>
                  <option value="Dating">Dating</option>
                  <option value="In A Relationship">In A Relationship</option>
                  <option value="Engaged">Engaged</option>
                  <option value="Marriage">Marriage</option>
                  <option value="Swinger">Swinger</option>
                  <option value="It's Complicated">It's Complicated</option>
                </select>
        </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><br>
          Likes:</td>
        <td><p> <br>
                <textarea name="likes" cols="60" rows="10" value"<?php if($form->value("likes") == ""){
   echo $database->getUserProfileInfo['likes'];
}else{
   echo $form->value("likes");
} ?>"></textarea>
        </p></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><br>
          Dislikes:</td>
        <td><p> <br>
                <textarea name"dislikes" cols="60" rows="10" value"<?php if($form->value("dislikes") == ""){
   echo $database->getUserProfileInfo['dislikes'];
}else{
   echo $form->value("dislikes");
} ?>"></textarea></p>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><br>
          Music:</td>
        <td><p> <br>
                <textarea name"music" cols="60" rows="10" value"<?php if($form->value("music") == ""){
   echo $database->getUserProfileInfo['music'];
}else{
   echo $form->value("music");
} ?>"></textarea></p>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td> </td>
        <td><br>
        
        <td><br></td>
      <tr>
        <td colspan="2" align="right"><input type="hidden" name="subeditprofile" value="1">
            <input name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit Changes"></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td colspan="2" align="left"></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
</form> 

[PFMaBiSmAd]

textarea's don't have a value="...." parameter. It's likely that everything after the "likes" textarea is being treated as invalid form fields.

[Anxious]

Ahh..

so what would I do?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Existing content goes between the <textarea>your content here</textarea> tags - http://w3schools.com/html/showit.asp?filename=tryhtml_textarea

[Anxious]

but the problem is...

 

the "Likes" bit works, and it all gets entered into the database, but the dislikes and music don't...

 

So why is it just one that works?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Make the HTML valid and all of them will probably start working. Browsers try to do their best to recover from errors in the HTML they are given but can only recover from some types of bad HTML.

[Anxious]

should it be like this

 

   <textarea name"dislikes" cols="60" rows="10"><?php if($form->value("dislikes") == ""){
   echo $database->getUserProfileInfo['dislikes'];
}else{
   echo $form->value("dislikes");
} ?>
                </textarea> 

 

and then it should work?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

All new-lines and spaces between the opening and closing tag become part of the data. Put the closing </textarea> tag immediately after the closing ?> php tag.

 

?></textarea>

[Anxious]

Okay, I sorted that out, should I test it out now

[Anxious]

Nope, it still doesn't work... dislikes and music are still not working.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

So, did you fix the HTML syntax in the "likes" tag?

[Anxious]

I changed it to this

 

       <tr>
        <td><br>
          Likes:</td>
        <td><p> <br>
                <textarea name="likes" cols="60" rows="10"><?php if($form->value("likes") == ""){
   echo $database->getUserProfileInfo['dislikes'];
}else{
   echo $form->value("likes");
} ?></textarea>
        </p></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><br>
          Dislikes:</td>
        <td><p> <br>
                <textarea name"dislikes" cols="60" rows="10"><?php if($form->value("dislikes") == ""){
   echo $database->getUserProfileInfo['dislikes'];
}else{
   echo $form->value("dislikes");
} ?></textarea>
</p>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><br>
          Music:</td>
        <td><p> <br>
                <textarea name"music" cols="60" rows="10"><?php if($form->value("music") == ""){
   echo $database->getUserProfileInfo['dislikes'];
}else{
   echo $form->value("music");
} ?></textarea>
</p>
      </tr> 

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Have you checked what exactly your form is submitting for debugging purposes? Add the following near the top of your form processing code -

 

echo "<pre>";

echo "POST:";

print_r($_POST);

echo "</pre>";

[Anxious]

I did that, and when I submitted the form, all that comes up is this..

 

POST:Array

(

    [slogan] => Administrator of MyVee

    [fullname] => Jeanie Tallis

    [profilelocation] => East Yorkshire

    [schooljob] => Wolfreton Upper School

    [status] => Single

    [likes] => dgdfdg

    [subeditprofile] => 1

    [submit] => Submit Changes

)

 

 

Dislikes and Music aren't submitted. So a value isn't got.

[Potatis]

There is an = sign missing in your dislikes text field - name = "dislikes"

 

<textarea name"dislikes" cols="60" rows="10"><?php if($form->value("dislikes") == "")

 

should be:

 

<textarea name="dislikes" cols="60" rows="10"><?php if($form->value("dislikes") == "")

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Good catch 

[Potatis]

Same for the music section, where there were also problems.

[Anxious]

Wow... how stupid, how could I not see that.

 

Thanks