Use phpinfo(); to figure out if the missing four characters are being lost in PHP or when you're doing the INSERT or UPDATE into mysql.
Also try doing the INSERT/UPDATE via the mysql command line. Michael -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Micah Stevens Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 3:00 PM To: dbmail@dbmail.org Subject: [Dbmail] Dropping characters. I know this isn't directly related to dbmail, but the people on the php-db mailing list aren't being too helpful and I was wondering if anyone here had any ideas. I've been having an issue where php will drop the first four characters from a POSTed form field when inserting/updating information in MySQL. I noticed while trying to add users to the DBMail database, and I can't figure out what's going on. At first I thought it might be my script, but if I do things manually with a tool like PHPMyadmin it drops the characters too. I started noticing the problem last week after I upgraded to php 4.2.3. It's always four characters, and it never happens when I have less than four fields in a form. I'm running RH 7.2, MySQL 3.23, and PHP 4.2.3. Any help, or ideas of where to look for problems would be appreciated. Thank you, -Micah _______________________________________________ Dbmail mailing list Dbmail@dbmail.org https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
