Textarea problem in form: values not recognised

[Martien van Wanrooij]

In a php form that should be send by email, I have been puzzling the whole
night long about the fact that the content of a textarea was not passed
through the email message. Curiously enought it worked when I omitted the
standard text in the text area, so
<textarea name = "reaction">Plea se give your reaction here</textarea>
the value $reaction in my mailform script remained empty.
<textarea name = "reaction"> </textarea>
however, worked properly.
I detected this by coincidence because I had written almost a similar script
for another site but without default values in the text area. I couldn't
find any explanation for this behaviour on the web.
Any ideas?

Thanks on beforehand, Martien van Wanrooij

[Johan Holst Nielsen]

Re: Textarea problem in form: values not recognised

Martien van Wanrooij wrote:
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> In a php form that should be send by email, I have been puzzling the whole
> night long about the fact that the content of a textarea was not passed
> through the email message. Curiously enought it worked when I omitted the
> standard text in the text area, so
> <textarea name = "reaction">Plea se give your reaction here</textarea>
> the value $reaction in my mailform script remained empty.
> <textarea name = "reaction"> </textarea>
> however, worked properly.
> I detected this by coincidence because I had written almost a similar script
> for another site but without default values in the text area. I couldn't
> find any explanation for this behaviour on the web.
> Any ideas?[/color]

Can you please try to send us an link to the whole source? Maybe with an
working example with an phpinfo(); on the page that you submit to?

Regards,
Johan

[Nico]

Re: Textarea problem in form: values not recognised

Is it useful to mention the following:

$reaction = $_POST["reaction"];

..Nico

"Martien van Wanrooij" <info@martienva nwanrooij.nl> schreef in bericht
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> In a php form that should be send by email, I have been puzzling the whole
> night long about the fact that the content of a textarea was not passed
> through the email message. Curiously enought it worked when I omitted the
> standard text in the text area, so
> <textarea name = "reaction">Plea se give your reaction here</textarea>
> the value $reaction in my mailform script remained empty.
> <textarea name = "reaction"> </textarea>
> however, worked properly.
> I detected this by coincidence because I had written almost a similar[/color]
script[color=blue]
> for another site but without default values in the text area. I couldn't
> find any explanation for this behaviour on the web.
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks on beforehand, Martien van Wanrooij
>
>[/color]