# PHP textbox loading in text

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**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [May 23, 2005, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-textbox-loading-in-text/148822 "2005-05-23T21:53:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![VoS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/22d042/32.png) [@VoS](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/VoS)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-textbox-loading-in-text/148822/1 "2005-05-23T21:53:17Z")

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Hey  
quick question ( i hope… )  
i have a small database with a few entries, and a button to edit the entries…  
once this button is pressed i want a text field to come up with the entries text in it ready to be edited and resubmitted, what im wondering is… how do i get the text i loaded in to appear in the text box?  
i want this text box to have the text of variable $answer

\<textarea name=“answer” cols=“83” rows=“5”\>\</textarea\>

and how do i refer to it using $\_POST after its been sent  
to get the edited data back?

im using php and mysql databases.

Thanks  
//VoS