Re: Maximum field length with PHP 4.1.2/MSSQL v7 ?

pan wrote: > >Ah, sorry I didn't make it terribly clear. I meant that I only ever get > >a maximum of 255 chars returned. > > O.K. - then that makes it seem a truncation problem and not a > data definition problem. > > minor thing: in edit_exam_question.php there is > " print '<a align="left">Select Correct Answer:<br>'; > " > > What's the <a tag? I don't know that one :) It's a new tag I just invented :-) > You might want to add the 'readonly' attritbute to > that textarea - lessens chance of unwanted post variables. > You seem to be using that textarea only for displaying the > retrieved question_text These pages are for the "admin" user to be able to edit/delete any question or possible answers, As such I left the text area rw so that they could change it. > Either one of the unknown queries in edit_exam_question.inc > is truncating the data or the url parameter is truncated, or > dbconn.inc is the culprit. dbconn.inc only holds servername, username and password. I've attached it and the other missing file to this message - with differing passwords of course :-) > Three chances at answering the problem, not enough data. > Except for the url parameter passing - but only id and > question_id get passed so no chance on the parameter formatting Yes, I thought I'd keep url passing down to a minimum and only ever pass record id's. > ooops ... files attached only reiterate the problem and do not serve to > further illuminate the path to happiness. I've attached the two missing files, so this should help to diagnose what I've stuffed up. -- Rgds, Chris MacKenzie Windows: "Where do you want to go today ?" Mac OS: "Where do you want to be tomorrow ?" Linux: "Are you coming or what ?"