Should be easy formatting question

[Evanthes]

Hey all Ive been trudging along on somewhat of a cms and ive made a page that i want to have records from the database load into a few select fields so that the user wont have to type those in when theyre entering new data. However what i think should work isnt even coming up. for some reason my textboxes are just normal blank ones without my info in it.
anyways heres my function:

[code=php:0]

function addnew()
{
echo '<tr><td>';
echo "<textarea name=id rows=0 cols=25>$searchterm</textarea>";
echo '</td>';
echo "<td>";
echo "<textarea name=comments rows=0 cols=25>N/A</textarea>";
echo '</td><td>';
echo "<textarea name=date rows=0 cols=25>".$today."</textarea>";
echo '</td>';
echo '</tr>';
}

[/code]

both $today and $searchterm are working fine just  not in that function.
I bet its something like concatenation but ive been messing with that and cat get it to work. thanks for any help you guys can lend

[Jocka]

[code]
global $today, $searchterm;
[/code]
put it at the top of the function

[mewhocorrupts]

If I understand correctly, you're going to need to add every variable that your referencing in that function to the parameter list, like so:

[code]
<?php

function addnew($searchterm, $today)
{
echo '<tr><td>';
echo "<textarea name=id rows=0 cols=25>$searchterm</textarea>";
echo '</td>';
echo "<td>";
echo "<textarea name=comments rows=0 cols=25>N/A</textarea>";
echo '</td><td>';
echo "<textarea name=date rows=0 cols=25>".$today."</textarea>";
echo '</td>';
echo '<tr>';
}


?>
[/code]

[Evanthes]

just [quote author=Jocka link=topic=103765.msg413459#msg413459 date=1155242268]
[code]
global $today, $searchterm;
[/code]
put it at the top of the function
[/quote] it worked, i really appreciate it!