Re: Put value directly into form?

> http://www.yorkshire-search.co.uk/links/add.php3 Right, I seem to have not made myself too clear so I'll try again. Originally, the page "add.php3" was using a plain HTML template called "add_form.html" which consisted of a simple form. If you click on the link above and have a look at the page, everything below Add Link was how it started off. In the code below, it's everything after the </php> tag. Users would just complete the form and press submit. However, I decided instead of typing in certain fields, I wanted to autofill the boxes so I found a PHP4 script which would grab meta-tags and embedded it into the template. All PHP scripts have to be within <php></php> tags as defined in a different part of the search engine script. My problem is that whatever method I have tried, I have not managed autofil the forms text boxes with values from the script in a one step process. I first tried putting the HTML form in the script but this brought parsing errors. Next I tried keeping the form in the HTML but trying to use value=<?....?> statement. This again brought parsing errors or the code simply appeared in the box. Hope that makes a bit more sense. <table width="100%" cellpadding=3 cellspacing=1 height=23 border=0 text=#000000 link=#FFFFFF></table> <php> // Include the function so you can use it later in the page require('metaengine.php'); // Call the MetaEngine function and assign the return value to an array $metaInfo = MetaEngine($url); // Array index is not numbers but names, such as: // $metaInfo[title] is the title of the page // $metaInfo[description] is the description of the page // $metaInfo[keywords] is the keywords of the page echo " <html> <head> <title>Sample</title> </head> <body> <form method=\"POST\" action=\"$PHP_SELF\"> <CENTER><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><b>Enter URL:</b></font> <input type=\"text\" name=\"url\" size=\"25\">&#32;&#32;<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" name=\"B1\"></CENTER><br><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><b>1. Press the submit button and it will grab meta tags of website.</b></font><br><hr> </form> <FORM METHOD=POST ACTION=\"add.php3\"> <input type=hidden name=title value=\"$metaInfo[title]\"> <input type=hidden name=url value=\"$url\"> <input type=hidden name=description value=\"$metaInfo[description]\"> <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\" width=\"100%\"> <tr> <td><center><input type=submit name=submit value=\"Now press this button\" class=\"button\"></center><br><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><b>2. If complete URL displays in box below, press the above button.</b></font><br><hr></td> </tr> </table> </FORM> </body> </html> "; </php> <p class="ptitle">Add Link</p> <table width="500" border="0" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td colspan="3"> <center> <font face="Arial" size="2" color="Red"><%error_msg%></font> </center> <form action="add.php3" method=post> <input type=hidden name=pflag value=add> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"> <tr> <td><font face="Arial" size="2">Url</font></td> <td><input type="text" name="title" size=20 value="<?=$title?>"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><font face="Arial" size="2">Title</font></td> <td><input type=text name=title size=40 value="<%title%>"></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><font face="Arial" size="2">Description</font></td> <td><textarea name="description" cols="40" rows="10" maxlength="255" wrap="virtual"><%description%></textarea></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font face="Arial" size="2">Category</font></td> <td><font face="Arial" size="2"><%category%></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font face="Arial" size="2">Contact Name</font></td> <td><input type=text name=contact_name size=30 value="<%contact_name%>"></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font face="Arial" size="2">Email</font></td> <td><input type=text name=email size=30 value="<%email%>"></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font face="Arial" size="2">Bid</font></td> <td><input type=text name=bid size=10 value="<%bid%>"> <font face="Arial" size="2" color="green">(optional)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> <td><input type=submit name=submit value="Add" class="button"><br>Once you are happy with your entries, press this button.</td> </tr> </table> </form> </td> </tr> </table>