Question

Please help, i am trying to make it so that upon users or guests visiting my webpage they will see a text area which is disabled and once they’ve logged in they can then click to edit this text area.

I have it pretty much set up how i want it but at the moment if a user logs in the text areas are switched from the disabled one to the editable one. but then all the other text areas of the other profiles disappear and i want these to stay so the logged in user can see other users ones but not edit them?

Hope i’ve explained that clearly enough. Hope this is possible?

<?php if (isset($_SESSION['user_id'])) { 
            if ($user['id'] == $_SESSION['user_id']){
 ?>                 

<textarea id="area"  rows="10" style="
    width: 456px; 
    margin-top:3px;
    text-align:left;
    margin-left:-2px;
    height: 122px;
    resize: none; 
    border: hidden;"><?php echo $profile['bio'] ?> </textarea>

<?
} 
}
?>

<?php
    if (!logged_in()) {
        ?>

<textarea id="area-read" disabled="yes" style="
    width: 456px;
    margin-top:3px;
    text-align:left;
    margin-left:-2px;
    height: 122px;
    resize: none; 
    border: hidden;"><?php echo $profile['bio'] ?> </textarea>
<?
} 
?>

Answer 1

You said for other profiles, the textarea disappears. That is because after the user logs in, his session is set. And only in profiles where id is equal to the session user_id, the textarea is printed. So you need to handle the else case for the if inside the first if block.

<?php
if (isset($_SESSION['user_id']))
{ 
    if ($user['id'] == $_SESSION['user_id'])
    {
?>                 

    <textarea id="area"  rows="10" style="
    width: 456px; 
    margin-top:3px;
    text-align:left;
    margin-left:-2px;
    height: 122px;
    resize: none; 
    border: hidden;"><?php echo $profile['bio'] ?> </textarea>

<?php
    }
    else
    {
    //Printing the text area for other users/profiles. This is what you said was missing.
?>

    <textarea id="area-read" disabled="yes" style="
    width: 456px;
    margin-top:3px;
    text-align:left;
    margin-left:-2px;
    height: 122px;
    resize: none; 
    border: hidden;"><?php echo $profile['bio'] ?> </textarea>

<?php
   }
}
?>

<?php
    if (!logged_in()) 
    {
?>              
    <textarea id="area-read" disabled="yes" style="
    width: 456px;
    margin-top:3px;
    text-align:left;
    margin-left:-2px;
    height: 122px;
    resize: none; 
    border: hidden;"><?php echo $profile['bio'] ?> </textarea>
<?php
    } 
?>