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[henry0]

Hello
I am not sure it does not pertain to HTML

I am trying to accomplish the following

but it does not display the PHP part

<textarea name="ud_first_name" "<? echo "$first_name"?>" rows="10" cols="60"> </textarea></tr></td>

any input

thank you

regards

Henry

[MonkeeSage]

I know next-to-nothing about PHP, but mabye this is the solution?

<textarea name="ud_first_name" rows="10" cols="60"><? echo "$first_name"?></textarea></tr></td>

Jordan

[henry0]

Thanks Jordan that did it
I have still to tweak a few items but it looks to be in the right perspective
Henry

[lorax]

<? echo "$first_name"?>

You don't need the quotes and you could also abbreviate it to:

<?=$first_name?>