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" <d.skyers@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "php-db" <php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: inserting data into Oracle tables
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 10:31:40 -0000
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
¬!"£$%^&*()_+{}@~<>?|\,./;'#][=-¦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
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David Skyers
Support Analyst
Management Systems, UCL
d.skyers@xxxxxxxxx
020 7679 1849 (internal 41849)
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