I have a routine that will allow the entering of an article into a mySQL database. When I type more than a ceratin amount of characters, hitting the submit button doesn't run the next script. If I clip the text it will go through. Is there a limitation on the size of a textarea box?
Thanks.
Yes there is a limitation that is set by the borwser. You may want to try and let people upload a text file, but be careful of malicious content within the textfile, there are ways of stripping out anything resempbling code.
Wow...then how do the other people submit large chunks of data using forms? I know that it must be possible as others do it. any ideas?
There is a little snippet about this here:
http://perl.about.com/compute/perl/library/weekly/aa052499.htm?iam=dpile&terms=HTML+form+post+limitations
It seems that it depends on the browser or something like that.
Use method="post" instead of method="get" when you set up your form. The limitation is due to the length of the URL. "Get" passes the info in the URL, "post" does not.
