Bear with me here. I have a problem with PHP and MySQL that's been stumping me for a couple of days now. I'm not even sure how to describe it, so I'll just do my best. There's a row in our bugs database that looks like every other row in the table, but when it's pulled from the database and displayed in PHP, the "description" field -- which is defined as a "mediumtext" field -- is displayed as a date field with a value of 12/31/1969. Moreoever, when I use PHPMyAdmin to look at the row directly, the "description" field has the data that I expect it to. Just for fun, here's the text in question: ============================ Quarterly Course Set Up - Spring 2012 (114) Section Course title Course Start Date 114MHI214 The Internet and the Future of Patient Care 04/02/2012 114MHI212 Health Information Systems Analysis and Design 04/02/2012 Program administrator 2 users; Laurel Aroner - Susan Catron - Jennifer Kremer Instructors; MHI214; Peter Yellowlees MHI212; Robert Balch Per instructions from Rita Smith-Simms - I'm creating this task for myself and based on instructions given which are that all listed courses are now to be backed-up and restored sooner (original course set up time-frame was a month before course starts). Adding instructions - Follow the 52-step quarterly course set up process and information from the course matrix; if matrix incomplete, input information during this set up As you track your time each day, please include in the notes which courses (use project code) you worked on and indicate either working on or completed. Create and notify by 2/15/2012 ============================ I've made sure there are no odd characters that would mess up how PHP is displaying the text. I've tried changing the field type from "mediumtext" to "text" but this didn't work. If anyone has any ideas as to why this might be happening -- or if I just wasn't clear -- please let me know. -- Sláinte, Richard S. Crawford (richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) http://www.underpope.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/underpope Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/underpope Google+: http://gplus.to/underpope
