Including Details in MySQL longer than 255 characters

Ok So I have my Database/Tables all set up. What I wanna know how to do / find a tutorial on is how I might go about including details longer than 255 characters that are referenced by a mysql query. So basically I have some thing like this on the inputs: First: Last: Email: Comments: Now the comments Section, I basically want to type in whatever I want. Since that could be larger than 255 characters how do I get mysql to reference that chunck of text in a query. I imagine the text will have to be stored outside the DB and read in to the HTML at an appropriate time or done like a message board or something. I would also like to keep it searchable. So that I could do a search through the whole DB and keep comments included in that search.... well maybe do a drop down that references the various fields to search and if you select comments you would get a select like "select * from data where comments =$input" Anyway if someone could point me in the right direction I would be very appreciative. Adam aventure@csf.edu