PHP and textarea

**sail3005** · Nov 11th, 2001, 12:41 PM

How do i store the value of a <textarea> in a variable using PHP?

**sail3005** · Nov 11th, 2001, 04:08 PM

anyone? please? this should be easy!

**Dork 1** · Nov 11th, 2001, 04:29 PM

Just give the text area a name like so
<form method="post" action="somepage.php">
<textarea name="something"></textarea>
<input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>

the veriable for the text area would be $something

**da_silvy** · Nov 13th, 2001, 07:22 AM

you can store it in a database or a flat text file if you want though

**sail3005** · Nov 13th, 2001, 06:27 PM

well i need to get the value of it before i can even do that!

**da_silvy** · Nov 14th, 2001, 02:06 AM

the name of the text area that was submitted is stored in $textareaname

just like dork 1's example

**da_silvy** · Nov 15th, 2001, 01:58 AM

Did you use $varname?

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