textarea value from database

tomvdduin · Apr 8, 2004

Hi,

I want to insert some data into an textarea element from a database. The only point is, that the data must me manipulated bt a javascript. I tried the following, but that doesn't work: (client-side code, the string 'name#^...' is generated by php)

<TEXTAREA name="abonnee_etiket" rows="6" cols="40" value="formatEtiket('name#^address#^city#^country')"></TEXTAREA>

formatEtiket is a javascript function that puts an \n in place of the #^. It performs some other functios, though.

The above is not working, but how can I?

tomvdduin · Apr 8, 2004

I forgot to say that the function formatEtiket returns a string.

vongrunt · Apr 8, 2004

Won't work... there are two ways to assign value to textarea:

Code:

<TEXTAREA>blah</TEXTAREA>

or

Code:

document.forms[0]["abonnee_etiket"].value="blah";

BabyJeffy · Apr 8, 2004

Here is how I would attack the problem...

Add an ID to the textarea and remove the value code:

Code:

<TEXTAREA id="myTxt" name="abonnee_etiket" rows="6" cols="40" value=""></TEXTAREA>

Add a function to set the value using your existing function that returns a string:

Code:

<script>
function initialise()
{
  document.getElementById('myTxt').value = formatEtiket ('name#^address#^city#^country');
}
</script>

Finally, set the new function to execute once the page has loaded:

Code:

<body onload="initialise()">

Hope this gets you started!
Jeff

Lrnmore · Apr 8, 2004

And you can let PHP do the job for you..

Code:

<html><head><title>First PHP Page</title>
</head><body>
<p>test</p>
<textarea name="texta" cols="20" rows="5">
Output from PHP is:
<?php
$dbinfo = array ("fname"=>"Billy", "lname"=>"Bob","pone"=>"465-9876");
foreach($dbinfo as $key=>$value){
print ("$value\n"); }
?>
</textarea>
</body></html>

HTH

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textarea value from database

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