[FX.php List] Anyone know how to escape characters?

[Greg Lane]

Dave,

Is the data being input from a web form? If so, make sure you are  
using POST for the form method and also use $request->FMPostQuery 
(true) in your PHP script.

I don't have access to 5.0 right now but with FMSA7, I've  
successfully put a megabyte of text into a field in FileMaker through  
FX.php. There may also be browser restrictions coming into play. For  
instance, Safari seems to limit text in input fields to 1,024  
characters but a textarea can hold a lot more.

In my experience with FMSA7, URLs (and forms with METHOD=GET) are  
limited to somewhere around 512 characters for the total length of  
the URL.

Greg


On May 16, 2005, at 9:21 PM, Dave Strickler wrote:

> I tried a few experiments, and although I didn't trap down an exact  
> numbers of characters, the POST (yes, I tried changing it from GET)  
> seems to have the same issues as just using the URL. At about +100  
> characters, the record is not created in FM. Note I am using FLU  
> v5.0v3
>
> Looks like its a problem with using a URL to input 'large' chunks  
> of data. I don't think its a problem with fx.php.
>
> What surprises me is that no one has bucked up again this before? I  
> am adding in text fields that have the bodies of emails as we use  
> FM as our CRM. Doesn't seem all that unusual to me. Is it unusually  
> to add in text like this? Maybe I'm doing things strangely...
>