[FX.php List] How to return large chunk of HTML

[Bob Patin]

I have a project where my client needs to store raw HTML in a text  
field, and then, by way of a search, return a chunk of HTML and  
display it.

When I try this, my page churns forever and never displays; I suspect  
it's because of all the assorted quotation marks, etc. that is in  
these HTML documents (which are translations from MS Word and which  
are filled with all sorts of hash).

Is this doable with PHP? If so, is there a limitation in the size of  
a text field that I can reasonably return? Is there a function that I  
should use to "treat" the field before trying to display it?

To take this a step further:

When I even try to do a search for something simple, on a layout  
which also contains one of these text fields (but I'm not searching  
the large text field or referencing it at all), I get the spinning  
beach ball of death.

Here's the problem: my client has approx. 500,000 of these HTML  
pages, and for complex reasons we have to keep the HTML intact and  
not try to recreate the pages in code. So I came up with the idea to  
import the HTML into a text field, and then do normal FileMaker  
searches to pull up the appropriate pages. In his current site, he  
uses this set of almost a half-million small HTML pages and  
Javascript pulldowns display the appropriate pages. I'm trying to  
move them to FileMaker so that we can create detailed visitor logs,  
bounce unauthorized visitors, and so on.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Bob Patin
Longterm Solutions
bob at longtermsolutions.com
615-333-6858
http://www.longtermsolutions.com

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