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Newby Question: Passing contents of a textarea to a variable
Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:28 am
by andys22
Hi, I am trying to pass the contents of a textarea of my html form to a php string variable however I am not sure how to do this. I have tried commands such as:
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$newdata=wiki_text;
$newdata=$HTTP_POST_VARS['wiki_text'];
However this is not working. I am sure that you can do it with a simple piece of code. Can anyone help me out please?
Thanks,
Andy.
Re: Newby Question: Passing contents of a textarea to a vari
Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:32 am
by Benjamin
andys22 wrote:Hi, I am trying to pass the contents of a textarea of my html form to a php string variable however I am not sure how to do this. I have tried commands such as:
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$newdata=wiki_text;
$newdata=$HTTP_POST_VARS['wiki_text'];
However this is not working. I am sure that you can do it with a simple piece of code. Can anyone help me out please?
Thanks,
Andy.
Well here..
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<textarea name="wiki_text"></textarea>
Thanks
Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:51 am
by andys22
That code seems to get the text into the variable however I am still having a problem hopefully you will be able to help me out with.
When I click submit on my form the variable $wiki_text is not being passed.
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<?php
$filename = "wiki.data";
// Open the file for truncated writing
$fp = fopen($filename, "w") or die("Couldn't open file for writing");
$numBytes = fwrite($fp, $wiki_text) or die("Couldn't write values to file!");
fclose($fp);
echo "Wrote $numBytes bytes to wiki.data successfully!";
?>
This php cose is in another file. will the variable get lost and therfore I should include some code here to get the text into the variable?
Thanks.
Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:58 am
by Benjamin
I don't see $_POST['wiki_text'] in there anywhere. Post all your code.