Re: Upload and retrieval of stories?

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Steven Katz wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm developing a site that will feature short- to medium-length > stories from lesser-known authors. I have designed a page that will > serve as a template, into which I will insert the material contributed > from the authors. I would rather that this process of inserting > content not be a manual one. In fact, I would like the programmatic > solution to include a web-based administrative interface. Normally, > this might consist of some forms and CF or PHP, allowing the user to > upload content to a database, where the material could then also be > made available to the templates for the dynamic creation of pages. > However, form fields seem to have a rather small character limit, > preventing one from simply pasting an entire story into them. This > isn't really what I want to do anyway. Has anyone devised a good > process for accomplishing something similar? Perhaps there's no reason > to store this material in a database, anyway? I'd be very interested > to hear your suggestions. > > Thanks, > Steven A textarea should work, although I'm not sure what the limit on them is...but I'm sure its pretty big. Alternitivly you can have your users upload plain text files containing the stories then open the needed files when you want to display the story. Thats my $0.02 -- James Atkinson ----------------------------------------------------------------- James Atkinson 100world Technical Developer 512-1529 West 6th Avenue phone: +1-604-637-8122 Vancouver, BC, V6J 1R1 fax: +1-604-742-1770 Canada email: james.atkinson@100world.com http://www.100world.com +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | This message may contain confidential and/or privileged | | information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to | | receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, | | discolse or take any action based on this message or any | | information herein. If you have received this message in | | error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail | | and delete this message. Thank you for you cooperation | +---------------------------------------------------------------+