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Input box not showing

Apr 6th, 2007

Hey all, Im trying to put a submit news box on my admin page but for some reason my top box, Headline: "Textbox here", is not showing up on my page. Am I doing something wrong? Did I miss a tag somewhere?? Thanks in advance.

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    <tr>
    <td>
    <br>
    <!--Display Add News Box-->
    <h3>Add News</h3>
    <table>
    <form action="admin/adminprocess.php" method="post> 
        <tr> <td> 
        Headline:<br> 
        <input type="text" name="headline" maxlength="50" value="<?php echo $form->value("headline"); ?>">
        </td>
        <td>
        Date:<br>
        <input type="text" name="date" maxlength="8" value="<?php echo $form-> value("date"); ?>">
        </td> </tr> 
        <tr> <td> 
        Content:<br> 
        <textarea type="text" rows="6" cols="50" name="text" maxlength="50" value="<?php echo $form->value("text"); ?>"></textarea><?php echo $form->error("text"); ?><br>
        </td></tr>
        <tr><td>
        <input type="hidden" name="subnews" value="1">
        <input type="submit" value="Submit News">
        </td></tr>
    </form>
    </table>
    </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td><hr></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td>
    <br>
    <!--Display Add News Box-->
    <h3>Add News</h3>
    <table>
    <form action="admin/adminprocess.php" method="post>
        <tr><td>
        Headline:<br>
        <input type="text" name="headline" maxlength="50" value="<?php echo $form->value("headline"); ?>">
        </td>
        <td>
        Date:<br>
        <input type="text" name="date" maxlength="8" value="<?php echo $form->value("date"); ?>">
        </td></tr>
        <tr><td>
        Content:<br>
        <textarea type="text" rows="6" cols="50" name="text" maxlength="50" value="<?php echo $form->value("text"); ?>"></textarea><?php echo $form->error("text"); ?><br>
        </td></tr>
        <tr><td>
        <input type="hidden" name="subnews" value="1">
        <input type="submit" value="Submit News">
        </td></tr>
    </form>
    </table>
    </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td><hr></td>
    </tr>

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Re: Input box not showing

Apr 6th, 2007

What does the code look like when you view-source in a browser ( i.e. after the PHP code has been executed ). Post the same code after PHP, and check to make sure those echos don't put invalid characters inside the value attribute.

Are you using an XHTML DTD, a HTML DTD, or no specified DTD? [ that code uses HTML tag closure rules, so you shouldn't use an XHTML DTD, a HTML DTD is preferable, but no DTD should work functionally ]

Try putting the form element outside the table element ( i.e. <form><table>..</table></form> rather than <table><form>..</form></table> ). Only certain things should go directly inside <table> elements ( tbody, tr etc )

EDIT: Oops; I didn't see the solved marker on this thread... How did you solve the problem in the end?

Last edited by MattEvans; Apr 6th, 2007 at 3:54 pm.

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Re: Input box not showing

Apr 6th, 2007

heh, bad typing on my part

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<form action="admin/adminprocess.php" method="post> 
<form action="admin/adminprocess.php" method="post>

should be:

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<form action="admin/adminprocess.php" method="POST">
<form action="admin/adminprocess.php" method="POST">