web companionen word limit

[robert.k]

Dear all,

I am currently making a cms system for a newspaper publishing their articles on the web.

the problem I have got is that when try to submit, throught the web companion, more then 600 word in one go it

[Gerry888]

I once ran into a similar problem submitting data to the Web Companion through a URL string. If the string exceeded 1,041 characters in length, the Web Companion would crash; otherwise it would work fine. I was never able to "solve" the problem, but I ended up splitting my submission into several smaller chunks instead of one big one, and all was well. Perhaps someone with more expertise can suggest a better solution...

--Gerry

[Steve T.]

Hmmm... 600 words is in the neighborhood of 32,000 characters. At first, I was going to guess that maybe that's the maximum number allowed in FM but a quick peek at http://www.filemaker.com/ti/109047.html shows that FM7 text fields can have 1 billion characters. Maybe Web Companion is more limited on what it can process, though.

See if you can submit 2 fields of about 600 words each. If so, you can use Gerry's idea and use other technologies (such as JavaScript or PHP) to split the submissions into 10,000 character chunks and submit them as separate fields. In FM, you can have a calc field equal to part1 & part2 & part3 & part4 & part5... & part10 so that you can have it in re-assembled form.

Another way, which I don't really recommend, would be to use e-mail technology to e-mail the submission data instead and then have an FM plug-in enter the e-mail message into a FileMaker record and field.

--ST