Re: [PHP] get size of variable n bytes

2003-07-16 Thread David Nicholson
Hello, This is a reply to an e-mail that you wrote on Wed, 16 Jul 2003 at 16:35, lines prefixed by '>' were originally written by you. > Yes, well, that complicates things. > You see, I'm trying to determine the size that the $_POST variable > will be > in bytes, because there is a byte limit in t

RE: [PHP] get size of variable n bytes

2003-07-16 Thread Petre Agenbag
e how much memory your script will use/need. So, you say there is no such function or no way to determine it? -Original Message- From: David Nicholson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 4:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] get size of variable n bytes

Re: [PHP] get size of variable n bytes

2003-07-16 Thread David Nicholson
Hello, This is a reply to an e-mail that you wrote on Wed, 16 Jul 2003 at 15:31, lines prefixed by '>' were originally written by you. > One way would be to assume that 1 character takes 1 byte to store > so... > $sizeinbytes = strlen($field); Also, this will only work with text data as numbers

Re: [PHP] get size of variable n bytes

2003-07-16 Thread David Nicholson
Hello, This is a reply to an e-mail that you wrote on Wed, 16 Jul 2003 at 14:52, lines prefixed by '>' were originally written by you. > Hi List > Sorry, tried to find it in manual... > I'd like to query a db and and see how big the result is in bytes. How > can I do that? > Thanks One way would

Re: [PHP] get size of variable n bytes

2003-07-16 Thread Curt Zirzow
Petre Agenbag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi List > > Sorry, tried to find it in manual... > > I'd like to query a db and and see how big the result is in bytes. How > can I do that? how big as in how many records are back from the query? look for _num_rows(), replacing dbserver with your data