How to use PHP & Textarea

Author: admin | Posted: 21-03-2010 | Category: PHP & HTML Form and Element

How to use PHP & textarea This tutorial how to using PHP read a variable from input textarea

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- Using PHP & textarea

Example

php_textarea1.php


<html>
<head>
<title>ShotDev.Com Tutorial</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="php_textarea2.php" method="post" name="form1">
<textarea name="txtDescription" cols="20" rows="3"></textarea>
<input name="btnSubmit" type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>

php_textarea2.php


<html>
<head>
<title>ShotDev.Com Tutorial</title>
</head>
<body>
<?
echo $_POST["txtDescription"];
echo "<hr>";
echo nl2br($_POST["txtDescription"]);
?>
</body>
</html>

Create a php file and save to path root-path/myphp/

Run
http://localhost/myphp/php_textarea1.php

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