SQL Server - 255 field size limit in PHP ?

Hi Im new to PHP so may be an obvious workaround to this. Not sure if it could be a bug in PHP.. I have a SQLServer table that contains a large nvarchar field (size: 2000). My php code to retireve and display this field is something like (dont have code to hand right now): $quote = mssql_fetch_array($query); echo $quote[0]; The problem is that only the first 255 characters are getting returned by PHP !? The mssql_fetch_array function creates the returned array so its not something I can manually size etc. Anyone seen this before, or offer any comments ?? Thanks D