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,

<input type="text" name="name" value="<?php echo $name;?>" />

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.

<input type="text" name="name" value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($name);?>" />

Answer 2

value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($name); ?>"