why is my textbox not populating? : I have removed all other code trying to find my error.  The code below will echo the passed value/variable in the php portion of the code only in line 2 which verifies that the variable is being passed.  The textbox in the html portion renmains blank and does not populate. Probably something simple that I am missing, but going crazy trying to find the error.  Please tell me what I have done wrong?

<!-- begin snippet: js hide: false console: true babel: false -->

<!-- language: lang-html -->

    <?php
    echo $new_customer . $_POST[search];
    ?>

    <!doctype html>
    <html lang="en">
      <body>
        <input type="text" name="customer_name" value="<?php echo $new_customer; ?>" id="customer_name">
      </body>
    </html>

<!-- end snippet -->

