PROBLEMS WHEN EXTRACING DATA FROM MSSQL DATABASE WITH PHP

I am having a really unusual problem. In my database, I currently have string such as: "I went to the store and bought some food. I then decided to go to the movies and I saw Bad Boy II." When I extract the data out of the database, the data always seems to get cutoff. In other words, I will only get the follow: "I went to the store and bought some food. I then decided to go to the movies and" Is there some type of variable I need to set in the php.in that control how long of a string you can have. It only seems to happen when I am storing long strings in my database. I am using a mssql database. I don't think it is a database issue because I am able to update the database just fine. When I check the database it contains all of the text. When I try to extract the data using php, everything seems to get cut off. Any ideas? Thanks, Dale