[SOLVED] Displaying variables without nesting php tags

[rawky1976]

Hello all

 

I know you can't nest php tags so if you're already inside a code block and outputting a table via echo and want to popultate the value of a text box, how do you format the syntax?

 

$result = @mysql_query($query);

if (mysql_affected_rows() == 1){

$firstname = $result['user_fname'];

 

The above gets a row, I'm not sure if the last line is necessary, now in the form what goes between the VALUE attribute to make it display the data from the query?

 

echo "<tr><td>First Name</td><td><input type=\"text\" value=\"\" name=\"firstname\" id=\"firstname\" style=\"width: 160px\"/></td><td>Last Name</td><td> <input type=\"text\" value=\"$lastname\" name=\"lastname\" id=\"lastname\" style=\"width: 160px\"/></td></tr>";

 

I tried $firstname, $result['user_fname'], echo $firstname etc etc...?

 

[lightningstrike]

$result is simply a result identifier you need to fetch the actual data.

 

$array = mysql_fetch_array($result);

$firstname = $array["user_fname"];

[rawky1976]

Thanks, that's worked