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

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

I believe the reason why we put _GET in there in the first place was
that there was a problem with early versions of FM7SA and _POST
requests from web, I do hope it's was solved in the v3 update.

Gjermund

On 5/18/05, Dave Strickler <dstrickler at mailwise.com> wrote:
>  
> Interesting about FM7 and 1MB input files. Perhaps I am missing something
> simple with FM 5.0... 
>   
> I am definitely doing the $request->FMPostQuery= TRUE ; before I called the
> DMAdd() function, so I'm pretty sure that's working. I don't know how to
> double check it though. 
>   
> As for the POST method, I am running the code from batch, and therefore
> there is not 'human' form to deal with. I am extracting the text string from
> Postgres, and then trying to write it to the FM database, so fx.php
> translates the text string into part of the URL and passes this to FM. 
>   
> Perhaps this is a limitation in FM5? I have tried a string like "hello hello
> hello..." up for 100 hellos, and it bombs, so I am pretty sure this is not
> happening due to strange quotes or other characters that should be escaped. 
>   
> Dave Strickler
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> 
> >>> glane at moyergroup.com 5/17/2005 6:11:26 PM >>>
>  
> 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...
> >
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