I'll just point out one thing if you are coding it yourself... You need to escape the data that's the default value in the textarea with htmlentities(). Modified code below:
<textarea name="preferred_work" cols="45" rows="5" class="inputclass" id="preferred_work"><?php echo htmlentities($emp['preferred_work']);?></textarea> On 10 September 2010 09:10, Brendan Brink <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I am wanting to accomplish the following and wonder if possible and if > so, how to do it :) > > <textarea name="preferred_work" cols="45" rows="5" class="inputclass" > id="preferred_work"><?php echo $emp['preferred_work'];?></textarea> > > This works fine the above, but want to make it more dynamic, and > instead of hardcoding the field name from the $emp row, to capture the > name of the form field, using Java i guess, something like > > 'this.name' > > Reason is, I am trying to create more dynamic forms, and speed up coding time. > > I realise that a better way would be to generate the entire form field > dynamically, and use PHP to echo the name of the field when creating > it, however the forms are already created and am wanting a quick way > to popular the fields with existing data from the database. > > hope this all makes sense :) > > Cheers > Brendan. > > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] > -- Chris Hope The Electric Toolbox Ltd Email: [email protected] Web: www.electrictoolbox.com Phone: +64 9 522 9531 Mobile: +64 21 866 529 -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
