[Phplib-users] show_element doesn't present value?

[Frank B. <fb...@sy...>]

I'm trying to use phplib-7.2d ooh forms for the first time...

  $f = new form;
  $f->add_element(array(
                        'type'          => 'text',
                        'name'          => 'realname',
                        'size'          => 12,
                        'maxlength'     => 16,
                        ) );
  $f->show_element('realname','xxxx');

This code generates:
<input name='realname' value="" type='text' maxlength='16' size='12'>

Why don't I get value="xxxx"?

I want to create a page to maintain a database table.  I expect that I
create my form object once with an element for each field; then loop
through my data, producing a form for each row?  Is this approach wrong?

Frank