Text area doesn't submit through POST 1

[DaSe]

Hello guys , and again I've stumbled upon a glitch in my code - this time a bit frustrating one: Text area doesn't submit text into database after submission - here's the code:
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$yourSay= mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `speech` WHERE mem_id='$id' ORDER BY `speakDate` DESC LIMIT 50");

$textField = $_POST['speech'];
$textField = stripslashes($$textField);
$textField = strip_tags($$textField);
$textField = mysql_real_escape_string($$textField);


$sql = "INSERT INTO `speech` (mem_id, speak , speakDate)
VALUES('$id','$textField',now())";
$insert=mysql_query($sql) or die (mysql_error());

<form id="formSpeech" name="formSpeech" method="post" action="muProfileEdit.php" enctype="text/plain">

<textarea name="speech" id="speech" cols="45" rows="5" style="margin-left:1px"></textarea>
<input type="submit" name="submitSpeech" class="submitProfileEdit" id="submitSpeech" value="submit" />

</form>

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Why oh why ? Thank you muchly for your insight...

 

[vacunita]

What's with all the double $ for the variables?

You should be getting errors from that if only because I doubt you have a variable that has a name of the entire textarea contents.

I also have encountered issues submitting forms when enctype is specified. Perhaps removing that would help.

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[DaSe]

Heya,
thank you - those double variables were copied in here by mistake - I don't have them in my code...shortly before your suggestion I had changed enctype to 'multipart/form data' and now it seems to be working fine indeed. Before I had 'plain text'. Thank you Phil.

 

[monkey64]

I've never needed to specify an enctype. That is unless I'm uploading a file attachment; in which case I use "multipart/form-data".