PHP - Text Area Box Isses

I'm trying to retrieve the text from a text area and put this in a PHP variable without submitting the form.  The text is provided by a database and I want to format it for the user.  How can I do this with PHP?

So basically:

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<form id="createForm" name="createForm" method="post" action="">
  <textarea name="subjectTextArea" id="subjectTextArea" cols="45" rows="5">
    This is the text I want to put in a PHP variable before the form is submitted.
  </textarea>
</form>

<?php
  $txtArea = ?
?>
Thanks for the help.

Hi,

Im trying to make a script to mass update a load of links in my database but im stuck on the basics, How can i detect a new line in a text area?

Anyone know why this dosen't work?


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<?php
if($_POST[newlinks]) {
    
    $newlinks = preg_split("\n", ($_POST['newlinks']));
    $i = 1;
    foreach ($newlinks as $newlink) {
      
      echo "$i - $newlink <br />";
      $i++;
   }
  
} else {


  echo "<form method=\"POST\" action=\"changehost.php\">";
  echo "<br /> <strong>Enter the new links to try and replace old ones</strong> <br />";
  echo "<textarea rows=\"16\" name=\"newlinks\" cols=\"84\"></textarea>";
  echo "<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" name=\"B1\">";

 
?>

Hi,
I'm not sure if this should be in PHP or HTML so apologies if it's in the wrong area. I have a form with a text area element but when the text is submitted, tags such as <br> aren't included so the outputted text is never formatted correctly such as there being no paragraphs.

Is there a way make sure such tags are included in the output text?

Ta.

Hi!

I have a text area on my webpage which takes in user php scripts and produces an output in an adjacent window. I am trying to find out how I can auto include some php tags into the input text area so that the user doesn't have to keep typing them in every time.

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<form name="form1" method="post" ACTION="editor.php">
        <textarea rows="10" cols="60" id="code" name="code"></textarea>
    <span class="submitbutton">Test code</span>
       </form>

Thanks in advance,
Jay

Hi,

I am trying to make a php website to create listings however I am having problems with the following code:

<?php
require_once("/home/a9653716/public_html/functions.php");
if(!$_SESSION['uid']){
    header("Location: index.php");
}

$id = mss($_GET['id']);

if ($id) {
    $sql = "SELECT * FROM `forum_sub_cats` WHERE `id`='" . $id . "'";
    $res = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
    if (mysql_num_rows($res) == 0) {
        echo "The forum you are trying to create a topic on, does not exist!\n";
    } else {
        $row1 = mysql_fetch_assoc($res);
        if ($row1['admin'] == 1 && $admin_user_level == 0) {
            echo "You are not an administrator, therefore you cannot post on this forum!\n";
        } else {
            if (!$_POST['submit']) {
                echo "<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"3\">\n";
                echo "<form method=\"post\" action=\"./index.php?act=create&id=".$id."\">\n";
                echo "<tr><td>Forum Sub Category</td><td><select name=\"cat\">\n";
                $sql2 = "SELECT * FROM `forum_cats` WHERE `admin` < " . $admin_user_level . "+1";
                $res2 = mysql_query($sql2) or die(mysql_error());
                while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res2)) {
                    $sql3 = "SELECT * FROM `forum_sub_cats` WHERE `cid`='" . $row['id'] . "'";
                    $res3 = mysql_query($sql3) or die(mysql_error());

                    echo "<option value=\"0\">" . $row['name'] . "</option>\n";
                    while ($row2 = mysql_fetch_assoc($res3)) {
                        $selected = ($row2['id'] == $id) ? " SELECTED" : "";
                        echo "<option value=\"" . $row2['id'] . "\"" . $selected .
                            ">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;" . $row2['name'] . "</option>\n";
                    }
                }
                echo "</select></td></tr>\n";
echo "<tr><td>Topic Title</td><td><input type=\"text\" name=\"title\"></td></tr>\n";
?>
                <script>edToolbar('message'); </script>
<?php
echo "<tr><td>Message</td><td><textarea id=\"message\" name=\"message\" class=\"ed\"></textarea></td></tr>\n";
echo "<tr><td>Tags (Seperate with commas)</td><td><input type=\"text\" name=\"tags\"></td></tr>\n";
echo "<tr><td colspan=\"2\" align=\"right\"><input type=\"submit\" name=\"submit\" value=\"Create Topic\"></td></tr>\n";
                echo "</form></table>\n";
            } else {
                $cat = mss($_POST['cat']);
                $title = mss($_POST['title']);
                $msg = mss($_POST['message']);
$tags = mss($POST['tags']);

                if ($cat && $title && $msg && $tags) {
                    $sql = "SELECT admin FROM `forum_sub_cats` WHERE `id`='" . $cat . "'";
                    $res = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
                    if (mysql_num_rows($res) == 0) {
                        echo "This forum sub category does not exist!\n";
                    } else {
                        $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res);
                        if ($row['admin'] == 1 && $admin_user_level != 1) {
                            echo "You are not an admin therefore you cannot post a new topic on this forum!\n";
                        } else {
                            if (strlen($title) < 3 || strlen($title) > 32) {
                                echo "The title must be between 3 and 32 characters!\n";
                            } else {
                                if (strlen($msg) < 3 || strlen($msg) > 10000) {
                                    echo "The message must be between 3 and 10,000 characters!\n";
                                 } else {
if (strlen($tags) < 2 || strlen($tags) > 200) {
echo "You must submit at least 1 tag and the total length mustn't be more than 200 characters!\n";
} else {
                                    $date = date("m-d-y") . " at " . date("h:i:s");
                                    $time = time();
                                    $sql2 = "INSERT INTO `forum_topics` (`cid`,`title`,`uid`,`date`,`time`,`message`,`tags`) VALUES('" .
                                        $cat . "','" . $title . "','" . $_SESSION['uid'] . "','" . $date . "','" . $time .
                                        "','" . $msg . "','" . $tags . "')";
                                    $res2 = mysql_query($sql2) or die(mysql_error());
                                    $tid = mysql_insert_id();
                                    topic_go($tid);
}
}
                            }
                        }
                    }
                } else {
                    echo "Please supply all the fields! \n";
                }
            }
        }
    }
} else {
    if (!$_POST['submit']) {
        echo "<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"3\">\n";
        echo "<form method=\"post\" action=\"./index.php?act=create\">\n";
        echo "<tr><td>Forum Sub Category</td><td><select name=\"cat\">\n";
        $sql2 = "SELECT * FROM `forum_cats` WHERE `admin` < " . $admin_user_level . "+1";
        $res2 = mysql_query($sql2) or die(mysql_error());
        while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res2)) {
            $sql3 = "SELECT * FROM `forum_sub_cats` WHERE `cid`='" . $row['id'] . "'";
            $res3 = mysql_query($sql3) or die(mysql_error());

            echo "<option value=\"0\">" . $row['name'] . "</option>\n";
            while ($row2 = mysql_fetch_assoc($res3)) {
                $selected = ($row2['id'] == $id) ? " SELECTED" : "";
                echo "<option value=\"" . $row2['id'] . "\"" . $selected .
                    ">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;" . $row2['name'] . "</option>\n";
            }
        }
        echo "</select></td></tr>\n";
        echo "<tr><td>Listing Title</td><td><input type=\"text\" name=\"title\"></td></tr>\n";
        echo "<tr><td>Message</td><td><textarea id=\"markItUp\" name=\"message\" style=\"width:300px;height:100px;\"></textarea></td></tr>\n";
        echo "<tr><td colspan=\"2\" align=\"right\"><input type=\"submit\" name=\"submit\" value=\"Create Topic\"></td></tr>\n";
        echo "</form></table>\n";
    } else {
        $cat = mss($_POST['cat']);
        $title = mss($_POST['title']);
        $msg = mss($_POST['message']);
$tags = mss($POST['tags']);

        if ($cat && $title && $msg && $tags) {
            $sql = "SELECT admin FROM `forum_sub_cats` WHERE `id`='" . $cat . "'";
            $res = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
            if (mysql_num_rows($res) == 0) {
                echo "This forum sub category does not exist!\n";
            } else {
                $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res);
                if ($row['admin'] == 1 && $admin_user_level != 1) {
                    echo "You are not an admin therefore you cannot post a new topic on this forum!\n";
                } else {
                    if (strlen($title) < 3 || strlen($title) > 32) {
                        echo "The title must be between 3 and 32 characters!\n";
                    } else {
                        if (strlen($msg) < 3 || strlen($msg) > 10000) {
                            echo "The message must be between 3 and 10,000 characters!\n";
                        } else {
if (strlen($tags) < 2 || strlen($tags) > 200) {
echo "You must submit at least 1 tag and no more than a total of 200 characters!\n";
} else {
                            $date = date("m-d-y") . " at " . date("h:i:s");
                            $time = time();
                            $sql2 = "INSERT INTO `forum_topics` (`cid`,`title`,`uid`,`date`,`time`,`message`,`tags`) VALUES
('" . $cat . "','" . $title . "','" . $_SESSION['uid'] . "','" . $date . "','" . $time . "','" . $msg . "','" . $tags . "')";
                            $res2 = mysql_query($sql2) or die(mysql_error());
                            $tid = mysql_insert_id();
                            header("Location: index.php?act=topic&id=" . $tid . "");
                        }
                    }
}
                }
            }
        } else {
            echo "Please supply all the fields!\n";
        }
    }
}
?>

It seems to work fine until I put the tags text box in. It works fine however when I submit something it says that I havn't supplied all the fields. I have spent quite a while trying to figure this one out but I am very new to php and understand that it's probably a missing comma or something!

I want a Text Area on my form where I can enter the body of an article.

It should be sticky so the input is not lost if there are form issues and the form has to be re-loaded.

The problem is that when I type "mmm" into this field, after I click "Submit" my form is reloaded - because I didn't complete it - and several blank lines appear before and after the text "mmm"?!   

Here is my code...
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<!-- Body -->
<li>
<label for="body"><span class="required">*</span>Body:</label>
<textarea id="body" name="body" class="text" cols="20" rows="5" wrap="soft">
<?php if(isset($body)){echo htmlentities($body, ENT_QUOTES);} ?>
</textarea>
<?php
if (!empty($errors['body'])){
echo '<span class="error">' . $errors['body'] . '</span>';
}
?>
</li>


What seems to be the problem?!


Debbie

Hey guy, I really need your help with this.

I have Input from a text area, in this format:

a
b
c
d

e
f
g

12
34


435

124


What I need do to is to output only a certain line from every block of text, every block is divided by one or more empty lines.
I have done this:


$input = $_POST["input"];
$lines = explode("\r",$input);
$num = count($lines);
$line_to_extract = $_POST['line_to_extract'];

for($i=0;$i<$num;$i++) 
{

if($i == $line_to_extract)

{

echo 'Line '.$i.': '.$lines[$i].'<br />';

}
}
 

What I need to do is to detect the empty line so I can keep track of the line to extract.
PLEASE HELP!!!

Hi,

I am trying to limit an user's input based on a text area size which is 180px.

Is this even possible?

There are ways to read how many linebreak's (\n) there are in a text area, but a long sentence will read as one linebreak.

Any Ideaas?

how to get text-area text into variable without using <form> i mean can i get through $_GET please provide me solution it needed badly

if ((isset($_GET['insertinto'])) &&($_GET['insertinto']=="true")){
if(isset($_SESSION["ajaxtext"])) {
    unset($_SESSION['ajaxtext']);
    $mysession =  "" ;  //my textarea typed data should b here 
     $_SESSION['ajaxtext'] = $mysession ;

//insertrow() ;
       }
    }

 print <<<EOD
 <textarea rows='3'  cols='40' id='ajaxtext' name ='ajaxtext'>$mysession</textarea><br>
EOD;  

Hi all, please bare with me i am a newbie to this forum, i will try my best to provide all clear accurate information where possible, please find a below breakdown, i've had a little help from a user already but as am still getting problems and confused i will take his advise am post it in the right place !

1) I have the below code and wish to ban specifc words, numbers and emails of my choice.

2) If the users enter a baned word etc either nothing will happen or it will forward them to another page.

Please find attached index.php which is full working script of where i wish to add my banned words code too, also please find attached indextest.php containing the working script and code of bannng specfic words that i can't get to work.

When i run indextest.php on my linux server the whole page displays perfectly but when you enter a baned or unbaned word and click submit nothing happens at all, so am very confused to where am going wrong.

Any kind, helpfull guides to what i'm doing wrong would be highly appriciate as i do want to learn from my mistakes.

All the best
Steve

Hello all.

I have a textarea on a form that users are posting new's stories into. Most are just copy/pasteing from Word, and they need to be able to include single quotes.
(ie: John's favorite store is Micky's)

I can't figure out how to make the single quotes (') into double quotes ('') so MSSQL will insert them in.

Any help? Here's my process code:


<?php
$title = $_POST['title'];
$district = $_POST['district'];
$central = $_POST['central'];
$east = $_POST['east'];
$north = $_POST['north'];
$west = $_POST['west'];
$story = $_POST['story'];
$date = date("l, M j, Y");
$sqlpicturename = "$picturename.jpg";
$showpicture = $_POST['showpicture'];




//declare the SQL statement that will query the database
$query = 
"
INSERT INTO News (district, central, east, north, west, date, title, story, picture, 

showpicture, show)

Values ('$district' , '$central', '$east' , '$north', '$west' , '$date', '$title' , 

'$story', '$sqlpicturename' , '$showpicture' , 'true')

";

//execute the SQL query and return records
$result = mssql_query($query);



//display the results 

echo "Thank You For Posting Your Story:<b> $title </b><br /><br /><a 

href='addstory.php'>Click Here To Add Another Story</a><br /><br /><a href='index.php'>Click 

Here To Go Back To The WebEdit Menu</a>";
echo "<br /><br />";

mssql_close();

?>
 

Hi, I want to be able to let user type in xml text and it will be parsed and uploaded to db, but it doesn't work, it just keeps redirecting me back to this form below!

here is html form:
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<html>
 <body>
   <form method='post' method='form.php'>
     <p>
        <textarea name="pastedXML" rows="10" cols="30">
    Please paste your xml file here.
        </textarea>
     </p>
      <p>
         <input type="submit" value="Convert to SQL" name="textXML" />
      </p>
   </form>

  </body>
</html>

Here is script (form.php;I just want to retrieve the contents typed in text area to store to variable...how??)
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<?php
//get the text in textarea and shred it!
if(isset($_POST['textXML']))
print $_POST['pastedXML'];
?>

Any help much appreciated!

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<?php

$db = mysql_connect("localhost", "root") or die("Could not connect."); //username and password

if(!$db) 

die("no db");

if(!mysql_select_db("simple",$db))
if(!mysql_select_db("regis",$db))//database name

  die("No database selected.");
 
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) //if submit button push has been detected

{

   $message=$_POST['message'];

   if(strlen($message)<1)

   {

      print "You did not input a message";

   }

   else

   {

      $message=strip_tags($message);

      $IP=$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]; //grabs poster's IP

      $checkforbanned="SELECT IP from admin where IP='$IP'";

      $checkforbanned2=mysql_query($checkforbanned) or die("Could not check for banned IPS");

      if(mysql_num_rows($checkforbanned2)>0) //IP is in the banned list

      {

         print "You IP is banned from posting.";

      }

     else
      
       if(strlen($message)>=1)
       {
         if (isset($_POST['sub']))
         {

 if (!$_POST['username'] | !$_POST['pass'] | !$_POST['pass2'] )
 {
  die('You did not complete all of the required fields');
 }

// checks if the username is in use

  if (!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) 
  {
   $_POST['username'] = addslashes($_POST['username']);
  }

 $usercheck = $_POST['username'];

 $check = mysql_query("SELECT username FROM registration WHERE username = '$usercheck'")

  or die(mysql_error());

 $check2 = mysql_num_rows($check);



 //if the name exists it gives an error

 if ($check2 != 0)
  {
   die('Sorry, the username '.$_POST['username'].' is already in use.');
  }


 //this makes sure both passwords entered match

  if ($_POST['pass'] != $_POST['pass2'])
  {
   die('Your passwords did not match. ');
  }

// here we encrypt the password and add slashes if needed

   $_POST['pass'] = md5($_POST['pass']);

    if (!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) 
    {
      $_POST['pass'] = addslashes($_POST['pass']);

      $_POST['username'] = addslashes($_POST['username']);

    }

// now we insert it into the database


     $insert = "INSERT INTO registration (username, password) VALUES ('".$_POST['username']."', '".$_POST['pass']."')";
     $add_member = mysql_query($insert);
     die("<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0; url=login.php\">");


 }

 else
 {




 echo "<form action='login.php' method='post'>

 <table border='0'>

 <tr><td>Username:</td><td>

 <input type='text'name='username' maxlength='60'>

 </td></tr>

 <tr><td>Password:</td><td>

 <input type='password' name='pass' maxlength='10'>

 </td></tr>

 <tr><td>Confirm Password:</td><td>

 <input type='password' name='pass2' maxlength='10'>

 </td></tr>

 <tr><th colspan=2><input type='submit' name='sub'
value='Register'></th></tr> </table>

 </form> ";




 }

       }
     /*   if($_POST['username'] && $_POST['pass'])
       {

         $name = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Persons");
         $thedate = date("U"); //grab date and time of the post

         $insertmessage="INSERT into mesej (name,IP,postime,message) values('$name','$IP','$thedate','$message')";

         mysql_query($insertmessage) or die("Could not insert message");

        }     */

   }





}

print "<form action='' method='post' name='form'>";

print "Your message:<br>";

print "<textarea name='message' cols='40' rows='2'></textarea><br>";

print "<a onClick=\"addSmiley(':)')\"><img src='smile.gif'></a> "; 

print "<a onClick=\"addSmiley(':(')\"><img src='blush.gif'></a> ";

print "<a onClick=\"addSmiley(';)')\"><img src='images/wink.gif'></a> ";

print "<input type='submit' name='submit' value='submit'></form>";

print "<script language=\"Java Script\" type=\"text/javascript\">\n";

print "function addSmiley(a)\n";

print "{\n";

print "document.form.message.value += a;";

print "document.form.message.focus();\n";

print "}\n";

print "</script>\n";

print "<br><br>";



?>

Screenshots



After i hit submit button with message inside it, it appear like this :



My main problem is when it goes to registration phase im do not want that message text  area appear so in my code which is  wrong and where im need to redo sir?

Hello all.

I'm new here... and new to php... so please be gentle if I'm overlooking something that's blindingly obvious.

I have a 'view blog entries' page and an 'edit blog entries' page. When I go to the 'edit blog entries' page, I want the form fields to display the preexisting blog content for whatever entry I'm about to edit.

The code below does display the 'title' but it does not display the 'article' content. (However, the 'title' and 'article' content both show when I view the source code.)

Can anyone tell me what I could be doing wrong? Thanks in advance.

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// Retrieve the blog post's information:
$q = "SELECT title, article FROM entries WHERE article_id=$article_id";
$r = @mysqli_query ($dbc, $q);

if (mysqli_num_rows($r) == 1) { // Valid blog entry ID, show the form.

// Get the blog entry's information:
$row = mysqli_fetch_array ($r, MYSQLI_NUM);

echo '<form action="edit_entry.php" method="post">

<p>Title:<br />
<input type="text" name="title" size="45" maxlength="80" value="' . $row[0] . '" /></p>
<p>Blog entry<br />
    <textarea name="article" id="article" cols="45" rows="5" ' . $row[1] . '></textarea>
  </p>

<p><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /></p>
<input type="hidden" name="submitted" value="TRUE" />
<input type="hidden" name="article_id" value="' . $article_id . '" />
</form>';

} else { // Not a valid entry ID.
echo '<p class="error">This page has been accessed in error.</p>';
}
mysqli_close($dbc);
?>