If you want to limit the amount of text coming in or going out, wouldn't it be easier to it either in your php script or constrain the html textarea?
Just a thought. -Chris >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Craig melia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 12:28 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Whats between a varchar text ?? >> >> >> Hi >> >> I am building my 1st app in php with Mysql and I hope you can help. >> >> I want to have users give a description in a form and >> varchar(255) wont give >> me enough space so I thought I would use text(650) but it seems >> the 'text' >> type wont take the limit of (650), it simply offers the user (65535): way >> too much. >> >> Is there anything I can do to set a column type to recieve just 650 >> characters of text, or something similar? >> >> Craig >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Before posting, please check: >> http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) >> http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) >> >> To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To unsubscribe, e-mail >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
