stakeknife

okay, strange error, i'm writing a script (some may know this already ) where the user can add/edit/delete articles and category's to the database. Im currently working on the edit part, the others are working...

i have a strange error on the edit article part

i use this line to assign the text held in the row 'body' in the article table to a textarea in HTML

Body: <textarea cols="65" rows="15" name="body" value ="<? echo "$body" ?>"></textarea>

In the database the type is of type text. When the textarea appears no text is inside of it, it is completely empty.

However, if i change the input type to a text box it shows the text held in the database. Like the following:

Title: <input type="text" name="body" value="<? echo "$body"?>">

any ideas?

should i change the mysql data type to longtext or blob?

havent a clue at the moment

Pizentios

try:

[PHP]
echo "<textarea cols=\"65\" rows=\"15\" name=\"body\">" . $body . "</textarea>";
[/PHP]

the values for a textarea goes in between the two textarea tags. That's probably what's wrong.

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