Re: Re: Need help on putting variable into <form>

Andy, Thank you. It Works! Hugh ----- Original Message ----- From: Andy Ladouceur <SacredSilver@razza.org> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 8:35 PM Subject: [PHP] Re: Need help on putting variable into <form> > Well,think about it like this: > If you did replace $comp name with ABC Company, this is what you'd get: > > <input type=text size=30 name=comp_name value=ABC Company> > > Not quite right, eh? This will solve your problem: > print "<input type=text size=30 name=comp_name > value=\"$comp_name\">"; > > =) > -Andy > Hugh Danaher <hdanaher@earthlink.net> wrote in message > news:001201c12f71$75a45b40$c1fcb3d1@win95... > Help. I have a page with a form with lots of text boxes which can be filled > with data from a text file. the fopen() and fgets() works, and the text > boxes which require numbers have no problems. But, I have text boxes which > require several words of text and they refuse to work right. The first word > makes it in the box, but the rest of the words are lost. > > As an example, the data file contains: ABC Company, Inc. in the spot for > $comp_name. If I call for this variable elsewhere outside of a text box, it > prints in full, but when used by the following, it prints only: ABC > > print "<input type=text size=30 name=comp_name value=$comp_name>"; > > There must be something blindingly obvious that I'm missing. Please help. > Thanks, Hugh > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >