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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<?php require_once ('../includes/db_connect.php'); 

$query  = "SELECT subject, welcome_text FROM welcome";
$result = mysql_query($query);
?>

<form name="form1" method="post" action="">
Subject:<input type="text" name="textfield" value="<? echo $rows['subject']; ?>"><br/>
Welcome Text:<textarea name="textarea" value="<? echo $rows['welcome_text']; ?>"></textarea>
</form>

</body>
</html>