Re: Text Fields - How Big Can They Be?

Have you considered allowing them to submit the actual file? rather than all the text within. It may not be exactly what you're after, but its one way :] ----- Original Message ----- > Hi Guys... This is indirectly related to PHP: Does anyone know the max > amount of text a free-form HTML text field can handle? > > I noticed that for some longer articles we're storing in a content > management system written with PHP, we were unable to paste the body of the > article into the text field because there was too much text. When we pared > the text down, it was no problem. > > This is bad news for a content management system! We have some longer > articles, around 8-10 HTML pages, and now I have no idea how we are going to > get them into the system using an HTML form. I really don't want to have to > do this manually in MySQL. That would make me break down and start sobbing. > > Has anyone else dealt with this and found a solution? > > Thanks a lot! > > Monty >