Re: Whats between a varchar text ??

2003-01-21 Thread Stefan Hinz, iConnect \(Berlin\)
Craig, > 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. In MySQL, you have TINYTEXT (2**8 = 256, like

Re: Whats between a varchar text ??

2003-01-21 Thread Keith C. Ivey
On 21 Jan 2003, at 17:27, Craig melia wrote: > 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. Use a TE

Re: Whats between a varchar text ??

2003-01-21 Thread Paul DuBois
At 17:27 + 1/21/03, Craig melia wrote: 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 (6

RE: Whats between a varchar text ??

2003-01-21 Thread Chris Faust
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