# Using sendandload to populate a readonly textfield?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-sendandload-to-populate-a-readonly-textfield/237016>\
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**Created:** [August 26, 2007, 2:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-sendandload-to-populate-a-readonly-textfield/237016 "2007-08-26T14:33:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![keitai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@keitai](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/keitai)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 2:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-sendandload-to-populate-a-readonly-textfield/237016/1 "2007-08-26T14:33:57Z")

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What i am after is the following:  
1 user fills in a form  
2 one of the fields represents xCoord and yCoord  
3 both fields are readonly and can be filled in by pressing a link which pops-up the flash file.  
4 Click on the flash map, will send a xCoordinate and y coordinate to the form  
5 user sees the values of the coordinates in the readonly textfield  
6 if the user is satisfied he submits the form.

The as code and php file works correct when i save the coord vars directly in a mysql db. But i want to show them first in the form textfields???

Using php and i tried

```auto

<tr>
        <td>X</td>
        <td><input name="xCoord" type="text" id="xCoord" readonly value="<?php echo $_REQUEST['xCoord']; ?>" size="5" /></td>
      </tr>

```

Any advice??