To send the textarea text value in any HTML forms to the web server and store it into a MySQL table by PHP, you will need to POST the textarea data to a PHP script and then the PHP script would connect to a MySQL database to put the data into one of the tables by inserting a record or updating one.
The HTML:
<textarea rows="10" cols="10" name="bio"></textarea>
Now the visitor has finished typing in his text and clicked the submit button. The data is then transmitted via POST method to a PHP script:
$data = $_POST['bio']; // because the name attribute of the textarea tag is 'bio'
$data = mysql_real_escape_string[$data]; // necessary step before using the data string to prevent SQL injection attacks
mysql_query("INSERT INTO `authors` (`bio`) VALUES ('$data')");By committing the last SQL query, the bio data entered by the visitor is successfully inserted into the table `authors` as a new record. Other than this, you may also want to use:
UPDATE `authors` SET `bio` = '$data' WHERE ...
To update an existing row with the textarea data instead of inserting a new one.
I think that’s pretty much what the basics look like to put textarea value into a database.
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For some reason your use of backticks here prompted me to fix the problem I was having. Thanks!
If you dnot want to allow the user to enter the html code in the textarea then you can use the PHP function [ strip_tags() ] to remove the thml tags from the text entered.
This function will also remove the javascript.
Nice catch, Farrukh!
perfect! i was just looking for this piece of code for my website
the database is not updating but it dont shows any error???////
help
<?php
include("../conn.php");
$index= $_POST["textarea2"];
$id = $_POST["textarea1"];
$name = $_POST["textarea"];
echo "'$index'";
echo "'$id'";
echo "'$name'";
echo "”;
$sql = “UPDATE sunhill_first_lease.about_us SET about_us.description = ‘$name’ where about_us.head =’$index’ and about_us.title=’$id’ “;
result=mysql_db_query(“sunhill_first_lease”,$sql);
?>