RE: [PHP] Upload and retrieval of stories?

Thanks for all of the help I've received. It sounds like storing everything in the database might be the best option here, after all. The database I will most likely use is MySQL. If I choose not to build a web-based administrative interface at this stage, what are my other options for uploading the data? Are there any good visual administrative tools? Also, if the entire story is contained within a single field of a record, how can I break it up into multiple pages, such as after a certain number of words? Steven -----Original Message----- From: Hans H. Anderson <me@hansanderson.com> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 4:38 PM To: James Atkinson Cc: Steven Katz; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Upload and retrieval of stories? I *think* the textarea limit is 64k, but it's probably browser (maybe even OS) dependent. Regardless, James' suggestion is probably the best. If you can have them upload an unformatted version in plain text, you'll be able to do a lot with it. Few novels I read take advantage of italics, bold, etc, so you are probably okay there. Hans On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, James Atkinson wrote: > 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. -- Hans Anderson -=- me@hansanderson.com http://www.hansanderson.com | PHP, SQL Databases, Flash 5 Animation & http://www.goofiness.com | Programming, Audio Production, Brewmeister.