How do I send textarea data to another page?

Question

I am new to this kind of things... I need to submit the data in 3 text areas to another page...
How do I do that?
P.S. I would have used inputs, if I could.

Answer 1

You need to create your page with form... For example call it form.html use this code for example:

  <form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="acceptpage.php">
  <input type="text" name="input" id="textfield" />
  <textarea name="text" id="textarea" cols="45" rows="5"></textarea>
  <input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Send" />
  </form>

After that create page called acceptpage.php Put this in between body tags

<?php
$frominput = $_POST[input]; // Variable who accept your data from input
$fromtextarea = $_POST[text]; // Variable who accept your data from textarea
// You don't need to use variables, but if you starter, easier to understand.
    // Do something with your arrived data... 
// Stupid, but for short explanation... for example echo it...
echo $fromtextarea;
echo $frominput;
?>

Of course, you can send data with html, but you can't accept data, for accepting data you need a programming language like php. I use php above to show you how it works...

Edit...(I just now saw that you want to you put the data into the database)... Here is code:

<?php
$frominput = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST[input]);
$fromtextarea = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST[text]);
// Do something with your arrived data... 
$query = mysql_query("INSERT INTO table (rowforinput, rowfortextarea) VALUES
    ('$frominput','$fromtextarea')") or die (mysql_error());
?>

As you can see, there are little modifications at variables which accept data, I called mysql_real_escape_string function, to make data more secure. If you want to learn more about mysql_real_escape_string function, mysql_real_escape_string

Don't forget that first you make a connection to the database. For it I usually make my own function:

        function connect_db() {
        mysql_connect("localhost", "username", "password");
        mysql_select_db("database");
                      }

And call function with <?php connect_db(); ?>

UPDATE 03.15.2015

A lot of changes since 2011 in PHP. Function mysql_connect will be deprecated in future. Use mysqli or PDO instead.

Reference:

mysql_connect deprecated

MySQL Improved Extension (Mysqli)

PHP Data Objects Interface (PDO)