Re: php coding help needed

I do hope that your code snippet was part of a larger statement. For example: $something = "(your code snippet here) "; If this is the case, as I sense it is, you've simply created incorrect HTML in your statement. In an HTML form field such as the one you're creating with the INPUT tag, you need to enclose a value in quotation marks when that value may have whitespace in it. You do this in a PHP string with escaped quotation marks: $something = "<tr>Address</td><td colspan=5 align=left><input type=text name=homepostaladdress size=100 maxlength=254 value=\"" . $attrib[0]["homepostaladdress"][0] . "\"></td>"; The part that will interest you is the escaped quotation marks (\") that I inserted after the value= and before the ></td>. You seem to have an aversion to using quotation marks around the values of your attributes, but when a value may contain a space, the quotation marks are important. The escaped quotation mark is how to put them in a string in PHP. http://www.php.net/manual/language.types.string.php documents this. By the way, is $attrib really a 3D array? Wow! I extensively used 3D arrays in my former life as a programmer doing massive statistical calculations on huge datasets, but I can count on a couple of fingers the number of times I've needed them since. Anyway, specifications for HTML, including HTML forms and the SELECT tag, can be found at http://www.w3.org. There are also extensive HTML tutorials and lots of general HTML documentation buried in Netscape's site. HTH, Doug Michael Cunningham was heard at 08:19 PM 6/21/00 -0400 to say: > >Hiya, > >I am working on modifying a php3 program someone wrote (I am a php >newbie) and I am having a bit of trouble. It seesm that when >the array entry that is below contains more then one word >seperated by a space only the first word prints out when >building the web page. If I actually look at the real data >it is all there but it just isnt printing it all in the input field. >Any ideas? I am sure it is something really simple that i am just >missing. This is for a ldap interface if you are wondering. > ><td>Address</td><td colspan=5 align=left><input type=text >name=homepostaladdress size=100 maxlength=254 >value=" . $attrib[0]["homepostaladdress"][0] . "></td> > >Also.. how could I make a selection box? Something with a >half a dozen choices or so and get the data into this >value. > >Thanks for any help you can offer.. > >Mike