Question

I have textarea in the UI which i display text inside it from db and the user edits it and clicks on update button.

while($row=$stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_NUM,PDO::FETCH_ORI_NEXT)){

<textarea  id= <?php echo $row5[0]; ?> name='upAncText[]' rows=1 cols=40> <?php echo $row5[1]; ?> </textarea><br/> 

}

Now when i click on update i have to read the id and texarea value inorder to insert into DB. could anyone let me know how to do this in php?

Answer 1

Change your textarea to something like this:

// Are you sure you want $row5 and not $row ?
<textarea name="upAncText[<?= $row5[0]; ?>]"></textarea>

Now, when you grab $_POST['upAncText'], it will be an array with keys that are the textarea ID and values that are the user input.

FYI, <?= ?> is shorthand for <?php echo ?>