Capturing input from textarea

[a0101]

I want to retrieve the input from the textarea from another page.

Similar to the purpose of e.g <input type="text" name="subject" value="My text here"> where I can retrieve it from another page by $subject=$_POST['subject'];

but I can't use <textarea name="subject">My text here</textarea>

or even <textarea name="subject" value="My text here"></textarea>, so how do I do it through html?

[Mahngiel]

but I can't use <textarea name="subject">My text here</textarea>

 

why not? that is how you create a textarea

[BuildMyWeb]

i dont understand what youre asking.  you can capture the data from a textarea just as you would a text input. 

[jardrake]

Giving a textarea a name and capturing that name in the same way you did with a textfield is the only way to do it in html, without JavaScript. Maybe you're asking why you can't get the value and not stating that you cannot use a textarea?

[hakimserwa]

make sure you are not forgetting to submit

[matthew9090]

Try checking that your form has the right submitting method (GET/POST).

[DavidAM]

$0.02

 

Make sure the TEXTAREA is inside the FORM tags

[spiderwell]

if you are trying to repopulate the textarea, you need to put it inbetween the textarea tags not into a value attribute

<textarea name="example">
<?php echo $_POST['example']?>
</textarea>

[Christian F.]

You'll need to add htmlspecialchars () around $_POST['example'], to avoid any HTML injection attacks or simply unintentional breakage from the user's input. "<3" might not have any particular meaning as HTML code, but it will have quite a bit of effect on how the rest of the code is parsed.