Re: RE: [PHP-WIN] SQL Server 7 help needed!!!

Hi Frank, Could you point me to the latest php_mssql70.dll. Giving me the datetime stamp of the latest version should help so I can check against my version. I have been having problems with text limits as well. Maurice ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank M. Kromann" <fmk@swwwing.com> To: "Paco Ortiz" <fjortiz@comunet.es> Cc: "php-windows" <php-windows@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 6:41 PM Subject: Re: RE: [PHP-WIN] SQL Server 7 help needed!!! > Hi, > > >It seems php_mssql.dll uses a MSSQL API called "dbdatlen". This API is not suitable for text or image fields. In fact, it returns a false text size of 8k (or 4k, depending on the client libraries and SQL server version you're using), even if there is more data. > > As you say "dbdatlen" uses the configured max length of text fields. These values can be altered from php.ini > > mssql.textlimit = 8192 ; valid range 0 - 2147483647 default = 4096 > mssql.textsize = 8192 ; valid range 0 - 2147483647 default = 4096 > > I have testest this with values up to 256kb and it works fine. > > Users of IE browsers are limited to enter up to 64K in a textarea input field and as you point out using large text columns slows down performence so I would not recomment that. > > >So I guess some modifications could be made, perhaps using BLOB-specific functions. Personally I would keep long chunks of text away from a Web app, but handling ir carefully... > > Modifications are not needed, as the module can handle large text columns! > > >I'm going to ask the maintainer if some work is currentry being done about this. > > I'm the maintainer so here is your andwer :-) > > - Frank > > > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >