Question

I have a page page1.php (lets say) and there are some text area boxes on this page like –

<form name="viewRun" action="/auto/page2.php" method="post">
    <td><textarea name="qatxt1 " rows="2" cols="20"></textarea></td>
    <td><textarea name="autotxt1 " rows="2" cols="20"></textarea></td>
    <input type="submit" name="save" value='Submit' style="background-color:#49743D;font-weight:bold;color:#ffffff;">

Now, users fills the text area boxes on page1.php and clicks Submit button and page2.php is loaded. The problem is that I am unable to retrieve the comments that user put in these text area boxes on page2. php. I have the following code on page2.php –

<?php 
$varTemp= $_POST["qatxt1 "];
?>

$varTemp is just blank.

Your help is highly appreciated as always !!

Answer 1

You can’t have spaces in names.

<textarea name="qatxt1 " rows="2" cols="20"></textarea>

Should be:

<textarea name="qatxt1" rows="2" cols="20"></textarea>

Then you can read it like:

$varTemp = $_POST["qatxt1"];

Reference: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-cdata

ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens (“-“), underscores (“_”), colons (“:”), and periods (“.”).