Hello Everyone,

I am curious of something. I am not even remotely knowledgable
of PHP but have some base knowledge of Perl, so Perl is my 
language of choice. 

I am writing a set of scripts to send data pertinent to my 
needs to a mysql database. 

I am deeply concerned about running into limitations not 
precisely with the Perl itself, but with the post statement
in the forms I am using. 

Best I can tell in learning Mysql, I have to send all data
for the row at the same time and cannot post the data to the
mysql table incrementally. Due to the outline of what I am
working towards doing, I am breaking the data input into a 
series of baby steps and passing the data from one form to 
the next in the Post statements. My concern is that once all
data is implemented into the table row, I am in effect loading
nearly 25,000 words of text into the table!

I sort of remember reading somewhere that the Post command in
the HTML Form has a limitation to the amount of data it can
pass between one form and another. I am certain that the 
25,000 words will exceed the top limits of the Post commands?

Given my situation, is there something I am missing that you
could enlighten me about concerning passing chunks of this 
much data to the Mysql database? I have wondered if I need
to send all of the text box data to temporary files for 
later filing in the mysql database? Is this a viable solution?
Or am I just imagining a problem that does not exist?


Thanks,

Bill Platt
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