John, that worked great. Thanks again for your help, I am going to do a tutorial on using textareas in order to edit contents of a database considering i had a hell of a time trying to find one elsewhere. Jas "John Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 003e01c1ceb2$a05f8680$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:003e01c1ceb2$a05f8680$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > "jas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > I need some help with a query to place the results within a text area... > > here is the code and so far every time I try it out all that happens is it > > displays the textbox but not the results of the query. > > <form name="wel_area" method="post" action="index_confirm.php3 > target="box"> > > <?php > > $record = mysql_fetch_array(@mysql_query("SELECT wel_area FROM > > cm_index",$dbh)); > > echo "<textarea name='wel_area' value='{$record['wel_area']}' cols='25' > > rows='8'></textarea><br><input type='submit' name='save' > > value='save'><br>\n"; > > ?> > > </form> > > Any help would be great. > > Jas > > > > > If the "wel_area" is a TEXT field in the database, why the array treatment. > I have a database that contains several TEXT fields that I can call up and > edit. To do that I bring the data into a textarea. > > Here's part of my code: > > The SQL query: > > $sql = "SELECT subj, body, info, fname, lname, title, city, other, > record_date, status, batch, modified_by > FROM $table_name > WHERE id = '$id' > "; > > The results are read into variables: > > while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { > $subj = $row['subj']; > $body = $row['body']; > $info = $row['info']; > $fname = $row['fname']; > $lname = $row['lname']; > $title = $row['title']; > $city = $row['city']; > $other = $row['other']; > $record_date = $row['record_date']; > $status = $row['status']; > $batch = $row['batch']; > $modified_by = $row['modified_by']; > } #end while > > In the body of the HTML section I have areas such as this: > > <td> > <textarea cols="60" rows="20" name="body" wrap="soft"> <? echo "$body"; > ?></textarea> > </td> > > This creates an editable TEXTAREA that can then be UPDATEd in the database. > > John Hughes > >
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