Php post with textarea

I created simple database which store data using a simple from
But I added textarea. I cannot see the textarea data in database and all other fields are ok

Form Page

<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="add2.php">
  <table width="864" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="00">
    <tr>
      <td width="97" height="44">Title</td>
      <td width="761"><input name="title" type="text" id="title" size="100" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td height="39">Summary</td>
      <td><input name="sum" type="text" id="sum" size="100" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td height="184">Text</td>
      <td><textarea rows="8" name="text1" cols="68"></textarea></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td height="41">Author</td>
      <td><input name="by" type="text" id="by" size="100" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td height="24">&nbsp;</td>
      <td><label>
        <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" />
      </label></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</form>

HTML:

Database page

<?
$username="*******";
$password="*********";
$database="*********";
 
$title=$_POST['title'];
$sum=$_POST['sum'];
$text=$_POST['text1'];
$by=$_POST['by'];



mysql_connect(localhost,$username,$password);
@mysql_select_db($database) or die( "Unable to select database");

$query = "INSERT INTO data VALUES ('','$title','$sum','$text','$by')";
mysql_query($query);

mysql_close();
?>

PHP:

 

Your code is fine. I think there may be some variable are overwritten. Please post the whole page code. Both are the different pages or same?

 

different pages..
this is the full code...

 

Change:

<td><textarea rows="8" name="text1" cols="68"></textarea></td>

PHP:

to:

<td><textarea rows="8" id="text1" cols="68"></textarea></td>

PHP:

 

Your Code is works, check whole code