PEAR::quickForm pre-populate values

Pear quickform

[Frasnko]

In the spirit of challenging myself, I am building a content management system using as much object oriented programming as I can (since i have avoided it in the past). Part of this involves making use of the PEAR classes which are great. I really like quickForm, but it has been kind of hard for me to figure out how to get it to do what i want it to (like upload files or integrating with Smarty)!

I have spent most of my time searching for answers, but I have not been able how to figure out how to pre-populate the form values (on a page where the user would be editing some info from the database).

Does anyone have any experience with this?

Many thanks (in advance) to anyone who has anything to offer...

[coopster]

You should be able to just print the value from the table column into your <input value=""> attribute.

<input name="firstName" type="text" value="<?php print htmlentities($row['firstNameColumnFromDatabaseTable']); ?>">