Re: Text Fields - How Big Can They Be?

Yup, exactly > HI Nofa, > > When you say submit the file, do mean as a TXT file via a file upload field? > If so, not sure what to do with the file once it's been uploaded. Do I read > the file using fopen(), then just put this into a var that can be stored in > the DB? Hmmm... sounds like a good solution. > > Monty > > > > From: nofa@php.ins4ne.mine.nu (Nofa) > > Reply-To: "nofa" <nofa@php.ins4ne.mine.nu> > > Newsgroups: php.general > > Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 20:00:45 +1300 > > To: php-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: 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 > >> > > > > >