Thanks, Dan. I copied your code exactly and posted it here: http://www.tidefans.com/test.php I pasted a large part of O'Henry's "Gift of the Magi" into the textarea, and it gets repeated, as before. Thanks for any help, Elizabeth -----Original Message----- From: Dan Tappin [mailto:dan@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 6:59 PM To: Elizabeth Lawrence Subject: Re: textarea posting duplicate text Create a new file: test.php with this exactly in the contents: <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>TEST</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <FORM ACTION="test.php" METHOD="post" NAME="test"> <TEXTAREA NAME="textarea" ROWS="4" COLS="40"></TEXTAREA> <P><INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="submitButtonName"></P> </FORM> <P><? print_r($_REQUEST); ?></P> </BODY> </HTML> Load the page, enter some text and hit submit. Rule out some strange issue with your page. Confirm it's a PHP issue not a coding one. Dan T On Feb 28, 2005, at 8:03 AM, Elizabeth Lawrence wrote: > Hello. I have been asked to look at a PHP issue for someone, and I > can't > figure out what the problem is. I'm hoping one of you experts can help! > > > > They are using Red Hat Linux / Ensim Pro 4.0.2, PHP 4.3.10, and Apache > 2.0. > > > > The problem: When a lot of text is entered into a textarea on a form, > the > text that shows up in the $_POST['textarea'] variable has the text > that was > entered, but it is duplicated. This is causing problems for their > forums. > Here is a very simple script I placed on the server: > www.tidefans.com/textarea_test.php (code below) > > When I place the same script on another server I have access to, the > textarea text is "posted" fine. > > Is this a PHP setting somewhere that I'm missing? > > > > Here is the code for the PHP script mentioned above: > > <html> > > <head> > > <title>Test PHP Script</title> > > </head> > > <body> > > <form method=post action="textarea_test.php" name="Form1"> > > <textarea cols=50 rows=20 name=textarea> > > //[a bunch of text goes here] > > </textarea><br> > > <input type=text name=text size=20 value="This is some text"><br> > > <input type=submit name=Submit value="Submit"> > > <?php > > if ($_POST[Submit] != "") > > { > > echo "<h1>_POST values</h1>"; > > echo "<p>Textarea submitted:</p>"; > > echo "<pre>" . $_POST[textarea] . "</pre>"; > > echo "<p>Textbox submitted:</p>"; > > echo "<pre>" . $_POST[text] . "</pre>"; > > echo "<p>Submit submitted:</p>"; > > echo "<pre>" . $_POST[Submit] . "</pre>"; > > } > > ?> > > </form> > > <?php > > phpinfo(); > > ?> > > </body> > > </html> > > > > If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it so > much! > > Elizabeth > > > > Elizabeth Lawrence > > elawrence@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
