php echoing an html form

[Algorien]

I'm using the code:

echo htmlspecialchars("<form name=&quot;chat&quot;action=&quot;chat_new.php&quot;method=&quot;GET&quot;>");
echo htmlspecialchars("<input type=&quot;text&quot; name=&quot;tosay&quot;>");
echo htmlspecialchars("<input type=&quot;submit&quot;value=&quot;Submit&quot; >"));
echo htmlspecialchars("<textarea cols=&quot;23&quot; rows=&quot;1&quot;name=&quot;name1&quot;>" . $un ."</textarea>");
echo htmlspecialchars("</form>");

to print an html form. when i run the page, it is blank, including all the rest of the code on the page

[Algorien]

does anybody have any ideas?

[Algorien]

please any help here on this specific method or another method to put the contents of a php variable into a texbox would be greatly appreciated.

[TecGumbo]

Why are you using htmlspecialchars? Maybe I have no clue what I am doing, but what are all the '&quot's for too.

I havent ever used htmlspecialchars, but is is possible that you need to escape the ; characters ?

please any help here on this specific method or another method to put the contents of a php variable into a texbox would be greatly appreciated.

You don't need a special method to put text in a text box. When you load the page, just have your php code echo its variable value into the value variable of a text box.

So it would look like this

$variable = "whatever you want it to";
echo '<input type=text value=' . $variable . ' >'; 

I use single quotes around the html so I dont have to mess with escaping the special characters.

Hope this helps

[Algorien]

That looks good but then how do i make that textbox part of a form?

[Algorien]

nvm I got it. tyvm. i don't have any idea what i was doin with the htmlspecialchars and '&quot;' s. lol anyway ty.