RE: [PHP-DB] Limitations on sending text to a database via text area forms

In article <20020417155923.48869.qmail@web10103.mail.yahoo.com>, jlhughes@yahoo.com says... > --- Gurhan Ozen <c-gurhan.ozen@wcom.com> wrote: > > This more of sounds like there is a discrepancy in internet > > explorer 6 ? If > > you don't have other versions/brands of browser than i.e. 6 in your > > machine > > Can you give the web page out so that i can try it with i.e. 5.5 > > and NS 6 ? > > If it works in other browsers it is definitely something in i.e. 6 > > ... > > > > Gurhan > > > I believe the problem is that I'm using GET instead of POST to submit > the form. Unfortunately, I chose to use GET at the "PREVIEW" stage of > the process so that users can use the browser BACK button to make > changes. > > Now I get to decide whether size of the message in the textarea > matters enough to rewrite the "PREVIEW" part of the process. It would > be fairly simple to POST to a temporary table and then retrieve the > posted data if the user wants to edit the text. > > The portion of the site I'm building is adapted from the "postcard" > feature at http://jomari.com/dad and > http://jomari.com/rail. > > > John Hughes John You might want to consider submitting to the 'same' script so you can redisplay the posted data; set some sort of structure in your script that, say detects that the submit button has been pressed and act accordingly. -- David Robley Temporary Kiwi! Quod subigo farinam