combine multiple strings into one textarea - php

Question

Can someone tell me how can I make this code under one textarea. I'm fairly new to php so any bit of advice would be helpful thanks.
if ($test != "")
print("<p>" . format_comment($test) . "</p>\n");
if ($test1 != "")
print("<p>" . format_comment($test1) . "</p>\n");
Cheers.

Answer 1

This is very easy to achieve, try it like this:
// Print the top
print("<p><hr>");
// Print $text if set
if ($test != "")
print(format_comment($test));
// Print $text1 if set
if ($test1 != "")
print(format_comment($test1));
// Print the bottom
print("<hr></p><br />");
Altough, I recommend you to use echo instead of print, because echo is a more common used function. Using echo you can do it like this:
echo "<p><hr>";
if ($test != "")
echo format_comment($test);
if ($test1 != "")
echo format_comment($test1);
echo "<hr></p><br />";
I might understood your question wrong, if you just want to put the content from the variables into a text area, you can do it as follows:
$content = "";
if ($test != "")
$content .= "<p><hr>" . format_comment($test) . "<hr></p><br />";
if ($test1 != "")
$content .= "<p><hr>" . format_comment($test1) . "<hr></p><br />";
echo "<textarea>" . $content . "</textarea>";
EDIT: It looks like you've used \n to get a new line, you should use <br /> instead in HTML. Simply replace all the \nparts with <br /> to fix the problem.
Hope this helps!

Answer 2

You may try by concatenating both content
<?php
require "include/bittorrent.php";
dbconn();
stdhead("Tags");
begin_main_frame();
begin_frame("Tags");
$test = $_POST["test"];
$test1 = $_POST["test1"];
$content="<p><hr>";
if ($test != "")
$content .= format_comment($test);
if ($test1 != "")
$content .= format_comment($test1);
$content=$content. "<hr></p><br />";
?>
<textarea id="test" name="test"><?php echo $content; ?></textarea>
<?php
end_frame();
end_main_frame();
stdfoot();
?>