Possibly use a column type of TEXT for the comments column in your table?

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> From: Adam Venturella [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 1:12 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP-DB] Including Details in MySQL longer than 255 
> characters
> 
> 
> Ok So I have my Database/Tables all set up.  What I wanna 
> know how to do /
> find a tutorial on is how I might go about  including details 
> longer than
> 255 characters that are referenced by a mysql query.  So 
> basically I have
> some thing like this on the inputs:
> 
> First:
> Last:
> Email:
> Comments:
> 
> Now the comments Section, I basically want to type in whatever I want.
> Since that could be larger than 255 characters how do I get mysql to
> reference that chunck of text in a query.  I imagine the text 
> will have to
> be stored outside the DB and read in to the HTML at an 
> appropriate time or
> done like a message board or something. I would also like to keep it
> searchable. So that I could do a search through the whole DB and keep
> comments included in that search....  well maybe do a drop down that
> references the various fields to search and if you select 
> comments you would
> get a select like "select * from data where comments =$input"
> 
> Anyway if someone could point me in the right direction I 
> would be very
> appreciative.
> 
> Adam
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> 
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