Posted by news.tpg.com.au on 05/28/05 07:49

This is probably quite easy but I think I'm getting the syntax wrong
somewhere.

I have a form to update user details and it would be NICE if I could obtain
those user details from the database and place it directly into the form on
the condition that a cookie is set for the user.

Originally I had an HTML form not even considering the possibility. Set up
similar to the below.

<table>
<tr>
<td>Your First Name: </td>
<td><input name="First" type="text" id="First">
example: Joe</td>
</tr>
</table>

So I tried renaming a couple of files, this one to a PHP and tried putting
some PHP in there for the value field of input like so:

<table>
<tr>
<td>Your First Name: </td>
<td><input name="First" type="text" id="First" value="

<?php
if( isset($_COOKIE[User]) ) echo '$_COOKIE[User]';
?>

">
example: Joe</td>
</tr>
</table>

The input box field fills in but with an error rather than the value of the
username.
Any ideas anyone?

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