You just ran into a limitation of PHP's mssql extension on Windows. This extension was built with DB-Library, which is obsolete and does not support the new or extended SQL Server 7.0/2000 data types. DB-Library assumes all varchar fields have a max size of 255, which was the case for SQL Server 6.5. varchar fields in 7.0 and 2000 have a max size of 8000, and will be truncated to 255 by DB-Library. Rather than changing all of your stored procedures to accomodate an old technology, you should use ODBTP, http://odbtp.sourceforge.net. It includes an odbtp/mssql hybrid extension that supports all of the mssql extension's functions. Thus, you will not have to change your current PHP scripts to use it. See http://odbtp.sourceforge.net/phpext.html#mssql. -- bob On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Bowden, Zeb wrote: > Instead of: > SELECT varchar_field FROM table > Try: > SELECT convert(text,varchar_field) FROM table > > There might be a more efficient way but this has always worked for me... > > -zeb > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ron.Herhuth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:Ron.Herhuth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 8:37 AM > To: php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Truncating data > > Hey! > > Okay I have a simple script that is nothing more than a query run > against > a Microsoft SQL Server database which returns a VARCHAR(2400) field to > display in a text area field for user modification. The problem is that > even though all of the data exists in the database, when it is displayed > in the Textarea not all the data is there. I've taken care to make sure > that all quotes are taken care of and things like that, but it still > truncates the data. > > This is driving me nuts...any assistance would be greatly appreciated! > Ron > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
