Hi if you really feel you going to offer very huge comments section 1. use longblob 2. when you using longblob; it can extend upto 2GB data each row 3. depends on your php export code you will get result, basically you can export as comma separated file. Thanks, Muthukumar Selvarasu, Project Manager (Web Development), Webmasters Ltd. _____ From: php-objects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:php-objects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sudhakar Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 11:21 PM To: php-objects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Question about textarea hi i am planning to use a feedback form on the website for users to send their feedback. apart from a few textfields i want to use a textarea where the user will enter their feedback. since the feedback could be long at times, in the database i will define this field as long datatype my question is 1. i will define the field in the table as ex: comments longtext, is this correct 2. also since the comments can be very long are there any potential issues in the data being inserted into mysql database. will the entire data be captured or only a portion of it 3. will all the comments be captured in the excel sheet when exporting the table as an excel sheet. please advice. waiting for reply. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
