putting a php variable in a HTML form value

Question

I\'ve got a php variable like so.. $name = $_REQUEST[\'name\']; I\'d like to put it in a HTML form field\'s value e.g in here..

Answer 1

You can do it like this,

But seen as you've taken it straight from user input, you want to sanitize it first so that nothing nasty is put into the output of your page.