Question

I have two issues:-
1. I need to be able to set the value of a textarea
2. I need to then get the value of the text area again for updating. I see that text area does not have a ‘value’ tag or something.. so I am not sure how to do this via PHP. I tried something like

print("<textarea cols='15' rows='2' name='textdesc'>$info_desc</textarea>");

to set it. But no luck and then i will have the same problem when retrieving.

Answer 1

To set the value in HTML…

<textarea cols="15" rows="2" name="textdesc"><?php echo htmlspecialchars(
    $info_desc, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8') ?></textarea>

To retrieve it (assuming your form issues a POST request)…

if (isset($_POST['textdesc'])) {
    $textdesc = $_POST['textdesc'];
}