You have the data in the $_POST global.
So submit it to _self as you already have and
if $_POST['calcentry'] is present and not null then do
your calculation
then set the value of the sencond textarea to the
result.
--- "Hull, Douglas D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have my two html textarea fields followed by these
> two buttons.
<form
> action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>" method="post">
> <br>
<input type="submit" name="calcentry"
> value="Calc Your Entry" /> <input type="submit"
> name="clearentry" value="Clear Your Entry" />
> </form>
> I have textarea1 to type words into. I have
> textarea2 for my results. I have people type words
> in textarea1 and after hitting the "calcentry"
> button I want to reload the same page, go into
> my:
if ($calcentry) {...}
part of my code and do
> some calculations with php and mysql and put my
> output into textarea2. But after submitting and
> re-loading the page my textarea1 field is empty. So
> my first question is how do I keep the data in
> textarea1 so when I perform my submit I can do some
> calculations on it etc? Then how can I place my
> results into textarea2.
So all I want is to type
> words into a textarea field, reload the same page,
> do some calcs on these words, and place the results
> into textarea. So it amounts to having the exact
> same page but now I have my calculated results in
> the second textarea. I have all my code for calcs
> etc. and it works fine.
Thanks for any help,
Doug
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