[PHP-DB] inserting data into Oracle tables
Is there a standard for inserting data into Oracle tables from a user input field in PHP? Most Oracle tables will have a limit on the amount characters such as Name VARCHAR2(60 BYTE) - this means the maximum amount of characters allowed is 60. If you use special characters in PHP such as entering the following into a input box ¬!£$%^*()[EMAIL PROTECTED]?|\,./;'#][=-¦abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzA When this gets passed to Oracle it takes the overall characters in the insert statement to 64, which then fails because it is over the Oracle table limit. Is there a standard way of dealing with something like this. Regards, David -- David Skyers Support Analyst Management Systems, UCL [EMAIL PROTECTED] 020 7679 1849 (internal 41849) -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP-DB] inserting data into Oracle tables
Is there a standard for inserting data into Oracle tables from a user input field in PHP? Most Oracle tables will have a limit on the amount characters such as Name VARCHAR2(60 BYTE) - this means the maximum amount of characters allowed is 60. If you use special characters in PHP such as entering the following into a input box ¬!£$%^*()[EMAIL PROTECTED]?|\,./;'#][=-¦abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzA When this gets passed to Oracle it takes the overall characters in the insert statement to 64, which then fails because it is over the Oracle table limit. Is there a standard way of dealing with something like this. Regards, David -- David Skyers Support Analyst Management Systems, UCL [EMAIL PROTECTED] 020 7679 1849 (internal 41849) -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP-DB] inserting data into Oracle tables
check the length of your vairables before you insert...if its web based app, then you should limit the input anyway and validate it that it matches the desired data Bastien From: David Skyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: php-db php-db@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-DB] inserting data into Oracle tables Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 10:31:40 - Is there a standard for inserting data into Oracle tables from a user input field in PHP? Most Oracle tables will have a limit on the amount characters such as Name VARCHAR2(60 BYTE) - this means the maximum amount of characters allowed is 60. If you use special characters in PHP such as entering the following into a input box ¬!£$%^*()[EMAIL PROTECTED]?|\,./;'#][=-¦abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzA When this gets passed to Oracle it takes the overall characters in the insert statement to 64, which then fails because it is over the Oracle table limit. Is there a standard way of dealing with something like this. Regards, David -- David Skyers Support Analyst Management Systems, UCL [EMAIL PROTECTED] 020 7679 1849 (internal 41849) -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP-DB] inserting data into Oracle tables
You also need to consider your character set. VARCHAR2(60 BYTE) means it only allows 60 bytes not 60 characters. Some character sets use multiple bytes (2 or 3) for some characters. You could define your table as VARCHAR2(60 CHAR) or set your nls_length_semantics to CHAR. I would also suggest that you setup a free account at OracleTechnologyNetwork (OTN) ... http://www.oracle.com/technology/index.html ... there is a lot of good information there. Roy A. Jones US Pharma Database Administration GlaxoSmithKline Inc. US Pharma IT, Data Warehousing Technology Remember - is your friend! Bastien Koert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08-Dec-2005 09:25 To [EMAIL PROTECTED], php-db@lists.php.net cc Subject RE: [PHP-DB] inserting data into Oracle tables check the length of your vairables before you insert...if its web based app, then you should limit the input anyway and validate it that it matches the desired data Bastien From: David Skyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: php-db php-db@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-DB] inserting data into Oracle tables Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 10:31:40 - Is there a standard for inserting data into Oracle tables from a user input field in PHP? Most Oracle tables will have a limit on the amount characters such as Name VARCHAR2(60 BYTE) - this means the maximum amount of characters allowed is 60. If you use special characters in PHP such as entering the following into a input box ¬!£$%^*()[EMAIL PROTECTED]?|\,./;'#][=-¦abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzA When this gets passed to Oracle it takes the overall characters in the insert statement to 64, which then fails because it is over the Oracle table limit. Is there a standard way of dealing with something like this. Regards, David -- David Skyers Support Analyst Management Systems, UCL [EMAIL PROTECTED] 020 7679 1849 (internal 41849) -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php