Assuming that the pasting is done into a <textarea></textarea> on an html form, I believe the Textarea will limit the past to just "text" characters. I suppose this could be dependent on the browser. I don't know of any html input control that would allow "blob" (binary) values. I also don't know if MySQL will police things input to a text column to make sure they are valid ascii text characters. Warren Vail -----Original Message----- From: Stuart Felenstein [mailto:stuart4m@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 12:32 PM To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Question: Validation on a text field I have a field that is an actual Mysql Text column, aka like a blob. I'm wondering if doing a standard validation that checks for characters outside of the alphanumeric range is enough. I'm imagining some users will cut and paste from a Word or PDF doc into the field. I've done it myself and no weird characters are showing up. Any thoughts ? Stuart -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
