Your question encompasses two parts...  the subject says these variables 
are storing incomplete values and later in the email you state mySQL isn't 
maintaining the formatting of your data.

The first part is possible because your mySQL database field may not be 
declared big enough to actually hold the data.  AFAIK there is no limit on 
actual variable size, as long as the server has enough memory, it should be 
fine.

Your second question about formatting... well the answer is the formatting 
is most likely in the database, but when you retrieve it and siaplay it 
ina  browser, well the browser doesn't understand anything other than 
HTML.  So carriage returns, line feeds, tabs, etc... never get 
displayed.  If you want the formatting to be kept in the browser, convert 
the data.  A good starting place is nl2br()

At 02:22 AM 2/19/01 -0600, Richard Lynch wrote:
> > $variable = This is the data.This is the data.This is
> > the data.This is the dataThis is the dataThis is the
> > dataThis is the dataThis is the dataThis is the
> > dataThis is the dataThis is the data
> > This is the dataThis is the dataThis is the data
> >
> >
> > This is the; da;taThi's is the dataThis is the
> > dataThis is the data
> >
> > This is the dataThis is the dataThis is the dataThis
> > is the data
> >
> >
> > I mean to say taht it is kidof formatted with REturn
> > character, space characters, ', ; and a lot many
> > characters...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Now my question is that. If I store the variable in
> > MYSQL dataabse under a particular filed TYPe varchar
> > or TEXT.
> >
> > It doesn't bring up the same kind of format like it
> > was when it was stored..
> >
> > Is there any way I can get the same output like I
> > stored it.?
>
>Use http://php.net/addslashes maybe...
>If it's varchar(XX) and your string is longer than XX, you will lose the end
>of the string.
>If you're not sure how long it might be, just use TEXT in MySQL.
>
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