Re: Re: A beginner´s question

Nathan Rixham wrote: > Eduardo wrote: >> Hi, I am Eduardo, a new PHP programmer and an old Cobol veteran. >> I know that >> $tastes=$_POST["tastes"]; moves the content of "tastes" from >> <p><textarea rows="5" name="tastes" >> cols="28"></textarea></p> >> to >> $tastes >> >> >> How do I move the content of $tastes to X of >> echo "<textarea rows="5" cols="28" readonly >> name=X>\n"; >> ? >> >> Thanks, Eduardo >> > > echo "<textarea rows="5" cols="28" readonly name=" . $tastes . > ">\n"; > > echo "this is how you echo a " . $variable . " in a string"; > While that is true, that's probably not what the OP wants. He's probably looking for: echo "<textarea rows="5" cols="28" readonly name="tastes">$tastes</textarea>\n"; Thank you, Micah Gersten onShore Networks Internal Developer http://www.onshore.com