John Holcomb wrote:
> I'm sorry for those who my have responded to my last
> email.  I thought I had plenty of room in my email
> client, but I forgot to delete my trash, so I did not
> get any responses. So, I'm going to restate my initial
> problem.  Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks again....
> 
> I have a text input field in my form.  I need the user
> to be able to enter something like:  Hello, I need #
> help. After which they click on a submit button.   The
> succeeding page then takes this text and tries to
> display it and tries to store "Hello, I need # help"
> in a varchar field in a mysql table column.   The
> mysql database is truncating the # sign and the text
> succeeding the # sign.  Also, absolutly no text is

check to see if the field where the info is going into is long enough.
ie varchar(50).  anything more than 50 get cut off.

> being diplayed on the succeeding web page.  I've tried

what did you name the textfield?  You should be able to echo "$string"; 
if you named the textfield string....

>  using addslashes() and I was warned against using
> htmlentities().  Also, I'm not sure if I'm dealing
> with 2 issues: A mysql issue and a html issue. Or, am
> I dealing with one issue: A mysql issue or an HTML
> issue.
> 
>   Thank you,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
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