Hi everyone,

How many characters can a variable holds?


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Thanks for your attention.

Jean Pierre Daviau
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windows Xp
asus p4 s533/333/133
Intel(R) Celeron (R) CPU 2.00 GHz
Processor Radeon7000 0x5159 agp

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."

>
> <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'] ?

> 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.

>> 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

you should use $_POST['variablename'] if you can, not $_request[''] as
it may cause some secutity issues.