Dear Jeffry Killen Thank you for your mail. I tried as you tell. But I cannot get word count in confirmation page. <?php print str_word_count($_POST["sentence"]) ?> appears in textarea in form page. Saneyuki Hori -----Original Message----- From: Jeffry Killen [mailto:jekillen@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2018 12:20 PM To: sh Cc: php-general General List Subject: Re: how to insert PHP into confirrmation page > On Sep 30, 2018, at 7:42 PM, sh <hosayuki@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello > I am a new member. I have a question about form page and confirmation page. > The question is how to get word count in confirmation page from form page by PHP. The program is as below which is part of whole page. > > Function of getting word count is: str_word_count($_POST["sentence"] > I am waiting for fast answer from a member. > > [form page, by html] > <form name="namae" method="post" action="2contact_mail.php"> > <table class="formTable"> > <tr> > <th>language combination</th> > <td><select name=" language combination "> > <option value="" selected> ----</option> > <option value="japanese→english"> japanese→english </option> > <option value=" english→japanese "> english→japanese </option> > </select></td> > <td><input size="30" type="hidden" name="word_count" /></td> > </tr> > <tr> > <th> sentence </th> > <td><textarea name="sentence" rows="4" cols="40"><?php print str_word_count($_POST["sentence"]) ?></textarea></td></tr> > </table> > > [confirmation page, by php] > > function confirmOutput($arr){ > global $hankaku,$hankaku_array; > $html = ''; > foreach($arr as $key => $val) { > $out = ''; > if(is_array($val)){ > > foreach($val as $key02 => $item){ > > if(is_array($item)){ > $out .= connect2val($item); > }else{ > $out .= $item . ', '; > } > } > $out = rtrim($out,', '); > }else{ $out = $val; } > if(get_magic_quotes_gpc()) { $out = stripslashes($out); } > $out = nl2br(h($out)); > $key = h($key); > ------ > I tried as follows: > I added: > $out .= str_word_count($_POST["sentence"]).; > Above > $out = nl2br(h($out)); > > But in all columns word count was added. I need word count only in textarea. > > > Saneyuki Hori This may not be exactly what you are looking for but the simplest approach I know of is: > <td><textarea name="sentence" rows="4" cols="40"><?php print str_word_count($_POST["sentence"]) ?></textarea></td></tr> JK