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Author limit of a variable
Jean Pierre Daviau

2007-06-17, 7:01 pm


Hi everyone,

How many characters can a variable holds?


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Thanks for your attention.

Jean Pierre Daviau
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ZeldorBlat

2007-06-17, 7:01 pm

On Jun 17, 11:55 am, "Jean Pierre Daviau" <O...@WasEno.ugh> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> How many characters can a variable holds?
>
> --
> Thanks for your attention.
>
> Jean Pierre Daviau
> --
> windows Xp
> asus p4 s533/333/133
> Intel(R) Celeron (R) CPU 2.00 GHz
> Processor Radeon7000 0x5159 agp


>From the manual:


<http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php>

"It is no problem for a string to become very large. There is no
practical bound to the size of strings imposed by PHP, so there is no
reason at all to worry about long strings."

Jean Pierre Daviau

2007-06-18, 7:58 am


>
> <http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php>
>
> "It is no problem for a string to become very large. There is
> no
> practical bound to the size of strings imposed by PHP, so there
> is no
> reason at all to worry about long strings."
>


Is it the same for a $var = request['textarea'] ?


Jean Pierre Daviau

2007-06-18, 7:58 am


> Is it the same for a $var = request['textarea'] ?
>

I found that I omitted the <form method="post" in my
html while copy and pasting somehow.
So the browser was using GET.


Everything is ok.


Anze

2007-06-18, 10:00 pm

>> How many characters can a variable holds?
>From the manual:
>
> <http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php>
>
> "It is no problem for a string to become very large. There is no
> practical bound to the size of strings imposed by PHP, so there is no
> reason at all to worry about long strings."


Of course, there are some limits regarding the memory usage of the process,
but I guess that wasn't the question. :)

Anze
Jean Pierre Daviau

2007-06-24, 9:58 pm


"macca" <ptmcnally@googlemail.com> a écrit dans le message de
news: 1182444690.895276.293040@c77g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> you should use $_POST['variablename'] if you can, not
> $_request[''] as
> it may cause some secutity issues.
>


Thanks again


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