Textarea Maximum Characters in Posting

[alsaffar]

Hi there,

What is the maximum number of characters we can post in a form for in a textarea?

And what is the maximum number of characters we can store in varchar field in mysql database?

Thanx in advance

 

[sleipnir214]

What is the maximum number of characters we can post in a form for in a textarea?

That depends. How are you submitting the data? A POST-method submission can send more information than a GET-method.

And what is the maximum number of characters we can store in varchar field in mysql database?

It depends on the version of your MySQL installation. See

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/char.html

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[BabyJeffy]

What is the maximum number of characters we can post in a form for in a textarea?

Following on from the comments already, it's dependant on the browser as well. This was more visible on the older (v4) browsers. Modern (IE5+, FF etc) browsers seem to be able to handle quite a lot of data in a textarea (using POST) in a form.

Set up a quick php page to test large data submits using the various browsers you want to support -- and see if they fail when you throw very large amounts of data at them. That's probably the best way to find out for your setup.

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[alsaffar]

mySQL version is 3.23.58

So, what is the maximum number of characters I can store in VARCHAR field?

Method of submitting is POST

So, in the wrost case, what is the maximum number of charaters I can POST?

Thank you all for your help

 

[sleipnir214]

So, what is the maximum number of characters I can store in VARCHAR field?

Again,

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/char.html

So, in the wrost case, what is the maximum number of charaters I can POST?

As BabyJeffy has pointed out, this depends on your browser. To add to his post, this can also be limited by web server vendor, web server configuration, and web server OS.



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