title: Issue using $_POST with a textarea
body: <p>I have a simple contact form on a website that has 2 text fields, 1 textarea, and 1 hidden field.</p>
  
  <p>For some reason, all the fields POST to a PHP script except the textarea. I have done this a thousand times before and never had this issue. </p>
  
  <p>Here is my HTML:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;form action="scripts/contactform.php" method="post"&gt;
  &lt;table width="0" border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="5" class="gpass"&gt;
    &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;Name:&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;input name="name" type="text" maxlength="50" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
    &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;E-mail:&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;input name="email" type="text"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
    &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;Message:&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="30" rows="5"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
      &lt;input type="hidden" value=" &lt;?php echo $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];?&gt;" name="address" /&gt;
      &lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
    &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td colspan="2" align="center"&gt;&lt;input name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit" class="noround" id="regbut" /&gt;&lt;input name="reset" type="reset" value="Reset" class="noround" id="regbut"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
  &lt;/table&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And my script looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$link = mysql_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD);
  if(!$link) 
  {
      die('Failed to connect to server: ' . mysql_error());
  }
  
  $db = mysql_select_db(DB_DATABASE);
  if(!$db) 
  {
      die("Unable to select database");
  }
  
  $name = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['name']);
  $email = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['email']);
  $comment = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['comment']);
  $ipaddress = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['address']);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have a few things to process the data underneath this, but that doesn't matter since the <code>$comment</code> variable isn't being defined. I've searched the entire script and there are no conflicting variable names.</p>
  
  <p>I am completely stumped on why this is happening. I've successfully processed <code>textarea</code>'s on my site multiple times before, so this really is confusing.</p>