Need help retrieving & inserting TEXT data.

I created a way for my registered users to decorate their homepages. However, no matter what I have tried the information will NOT stick to the page. I was told I would have to INSERT that data and then RETRIEVE the data. Which is all fine and dandy. However, I can't seem to get the insertion right or the retrieval right.

Please help?

Here is the form I am using:

<?php
if(count($_POST) > 0)
{
$changepage = $_POST['changepage'];
// do any extra formatting you need to the string var $changepage here
// output it back here
echo " <tt>$changepage</tt> ";
}
?>

<form action="pasture.php" method="post">
<TEXTAREA class="text" name="changepage" COLS="80" ROWS="15">


</textarea>
<br><input type="submit" value="Change">
</form>


What do I need to do to get the information to insert into "pasture" and then retrieve it from "pasture"?

Also, how do I get the textarea to allow html tags?

 

What is "pasture"? Is it a table in your database?
And what exactly is the purpose of this form? What do your users put in the textarea, and what do you want to do with it?

 

You need a tutorial which can teach you to insert and retrieve data from mysql. You can find a lot of material on this topic on search engines.