Whats between a varchar text ??

2003-01-21 Thread Craig melia
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

RE: Whats between a varchar text ??

2003-01-21 Thread Chris Faust
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

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

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 TEXT

Re: Whats between a varchar text ??

2003-01-21 Thread Stefan Hinz, iConnect \(Berlin\)
Heesestr. 6, 12169 Berlin (Germany) Tel: +49 30 7970948-0 Fax: +49 30 7970948-3 - Original Message - From: Craig melia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 6:27 PM Subject: Whats between a varchar text ?? Hi I am building my 1st app in php with Mysql