Re: TEXTAREA Help Needed

I've always done something similar to this, having the user paste the text
into a textarea, then writing the text to a new text file that is given a
filename that is the same as the ID number.  Each record ends up with a text
file on the server, but it saves in database space.  In this way, the
database doesn't even need a field pointing to the location and name of the
text file.

Of course in the template where it needs to be displayed, you use cfinclude
that calls for the file #myID#.txt.  This works great for images too.

Please note that when writing the text to the file, you need to use the
ParagraphFormat() function, and the user needs to know to use a double enter
(I don't know the technical term for that!) to denote paragraph breaks.  CF
will then automatically insert HTML paragraph tags into the text.

Ciao,
~Val
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kreations Networks Webmaster" <webmaster(at)kapnkreations.com>
To: "HWG Techniques List" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: TEXTAREA Help Needed


> Is there the potential that you could supply an upload function in place
of
> the large text area?  I am not sure of the limits of CF - but I do know in
> some instances you may experience truncation.
>
> Possibly enabling them to upload a doc or text file and storing a pointer
to
> it in the database may work more smoothly.  As it is internal - you have a
> more captive audience and can educate users on the process.
>
> If you are on an ISS server you will find ample upload examples using asp
at
> 15seconds.com.  There are some excellent upload scripts at CGI Resources
as
> well using Perl for either the IIS or Apache platforms.
>
> A cursory search on textarea and textare limitations under Cold Fusion in
> the Allaire knowledge base did not turn up any immediate results that
state
> a limit.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
>
>
> > We use textareas quite often to collect notes for our databases.  I have
one
> > particular application where this is not working properly.  It appears
that
> > all text after about 1250 characters is getting cutoff.  I realize this
is a
> > lot of information to put into a textarea but the data for this
particular
> > application gets written directly to a .txt file when the web page is
> > submitted.  (I'm not sure that it matters but we all our pages use
> > ColdFusion.)
> >
> > Does anyone know of a limitation on the amount of text that can be
entered
> > into a textarea?
> >
> > I can't supply a url as this is on a corporate intranet.
> >
> > Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Polly Heil
> > Asst. Programmer
> > Nestle USA -- Eau Claire
> >
>
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> Blane Warrene
> Chief Technology Officer
> Kap`n Kreations | Internet Solutions
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