Hi, I actually found the problem. I was loading the form processor in a frame with another page. When I switched to loading it by itself, it works great. Thanks BlueScale On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 18:21 -0300, Marlon Brandão de Sousa wrote: > Try to change the closing php tag from php?> to ?> only. > Marlon > > 2008/8/30, BlueScale <bluescale1976@xxxxxxx>: > > Hi, > > Is there something special I need to do to get information from text > > areas? > > I have checked for the usual mistakes, misnamed variables etc, and > > everything is as it should be except there's never anything in the > > textarea variable. > > my textarea is as follows: > > <textarea cols="60" rows="5" name="mytext"><?php if > > ($_SESSION["mytext"] != "") > > { > > echo stripslashes($_SESSION["mytext"]); > > } > > php?></textarea> > > > > In my form processing code, I have of course, $_SESSION["mytext"] = > > $_POST["mytext"]. > > Every other piece of the form works as expected, just not the textarea. > > Thanks for any help > > BlueScale > > > >