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Hi All,

New to PHP so any help appreciated :)

 

Can anyone explain why this;

      <tr><td><label for="notes">Notes:</label> 
          <td><input type="text" id="notes" name="notes" maxlength="250" size="70" value="<?php if (!empty($notes)) echo $notes; ?>"></input></td>
      </tr>

Displays data from a MySQL database (field $notes, VARCHAR(250) )

and this;

  <tr><td class=textboxlabel><label for="notes">Notes:</label> 
      <td><textarea id="notes" name="notes" rows="4" cols="70" maxlength="250" value="<?php if (!empty($notes)) echo $notes; ?>"></textarea></td>
  </tr>

displays nothing????

 

Not sure how much info to provide........

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Also, escaping in and out of HTML like this is kinda old fashioned. These days you may want to keep your HTML separate from PHP.

Personally I limit myself to placing only variables in my HTML. So, no conditional logic in the HTML itself, which makes it very clean and easy to maintain.

If using heredoc, you can use curly brackets around variables. I.e.:

 

$tpl_content = array('title' => 'test', 'article_body' => 'hallo world');

$template = <<<_TEMPLATE_
<!doctype html>
<html>
 <head>
   <title>{$tpl_content['title']}</title>
 </head>
  
 <body>
   <article>
     <header>
       <h1>{$tpl_content['title']}</h1>
     </header>
     {$tpl_content['article_body']}
   </article>
 </body>
</html>
_TEMPLATE_;

// End of Template

I wish I had learned this early on myself, as it could have saved me many hours of spaghetti hell.

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Thanks cyberRobot :)

This now does what's required

  <tr><td class=textboxlabel><label for="notes">Notes:</label> 
      <td><textarea id="notes" name="notes" rows="4" cols="70" maxlength="250" >  <?php if (!empty($notes)) echo $notes; ?> </textarea></td>
  </tr>

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