Re: Amount of characters a variable is able to contain

I'm not sure where you are heading with this, but here goes, if you want to keep lots of data in mysql (PHP should not truncate your data) just use a LONG TEXT or TEXT... If im not mistaken, TEXT take 2^16 characters, so approximately 4 million characters while LONG TEXTS can take several gigabytes. Don't take this for granted, it depends on your database server version and i also may be wrong at the base... About your code... why not just do: $message = file_get_contents($file); Put all the file content in $message, further more, this method doesn't strip your \n\r, the method you had stripped your line feeds. ?? :P Ron Piggott wrote:

This is a sample of code which takes the $web_page and puts it into $message The problem I have is that I have lines in my $web_page files which are longer (have more characters) than $message is able to handle and chunks of web page text are simply truncated after the character limit has been reached. Is there a way to deal with this and allow $message (for example) to hold 500 or 1,000 characters --- twice of whatever the default setting is? Ron $lineArray = file($web_page); // make an empty variable first $message = ""; // concat all array element foreach($lineArray as $eachLine) { $message .= $eachLine; }