'PLeaSE' help a FCK newbie out on how to load a file into ed

Hi all though you are few,

I'm going round and round in circles trying to work out how to load website pages into FCK
so they can be edited online - but though I successfully got pages to load in the TextArea
setup, due to the TextArea limitation of 5,000 to 6,000 characters (or so), it looses half
the page when saved...
http://demo.wheretohost.me/AdvancedEditor.pl
NB. Please don't edit (save) any file here as it might screw up the link at the end of this post

How is a page loaded using the other method oFCKeditor->Value and oFCKeditor->Create()

I have an example that's not working but shows the code - please take a look and let me know
what I doing wrong.. Take a look at the source as there are comments...

http://demo.wheretohost.me/PageEditor.php

Thanks,
:mrgreen: Nick. . .

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 13:37

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3737

Re: 'PLeaSE' help a FCK newbie out on how to load a file into ed

I've never heard of a size limitation in a textarea, so it looks like a problem with your server (server setup, processing page, database, whatever...)

Sun, 08/23/2009 - 05:25

nickalf

Joined: 15/08/2009

Posts: 10

Re: 'PLeaSE' help a FCK newbie out on how to load a file into ed

Hi,
Thanx 4 the comeback

Apparently there is - Both of the Elizabeth Castro (Peachtree Press) HTML books I have refer to it, as well as the following link http://www.htmltutorials.ca/lesson16.htm
Bottom of page, last paragraph last sentence:
" What is the maximum number of characters that a visitor can enter into a text area box? Answer: 32,700 characters "

But, if you know of a server related issue that would cause it to be less, these Web templates are around 15,000 characters, please let me (us) know so I can use the working TextArea model I have..

Thanks,
Nick. . .

Sun, 08/23/2009 - 10:44

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3737

Re: 'PLeaSE' help a FCK newbie out on how to load a file into ed

well, that page is wrong.
Another example: the answer 5 and 6 are also wrong, they depend on the locale of the user, and I think that not all the browsers agree on the default text.

I know that my users can enter several Mb of data in a textarea. If you can't manage to make it work, then as I said it's a problem with your setup

You can see that there's no limit in thedefinition of textarea in the HTML 4 spec, and this tutorial also says that there's no limit: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 04:46

nickalf

Joined: 15/08/2009

Posts: 10

Re: 'PLeaSE' help a FCK newbie out on how to load a file into ed

Hi,

This is very confusing then...
As Elizabeth Castro has been writing HTML and CGI/Perl books for over ten years, I'm confused why she would make (print) that statement if it's not correct ?

My experience has been that the same problem has occured for me on 4 different servers.
iServe on my own DEC Alpha WinNT 13 years ago.
A Windows Server hosted in Texas 4 years later.
Apache on UNIX in Canada 1 year later (didn't like the Windows system)
and now Apache2 on Linux for the past 4 years.
Same problem on all systems.

From what you're saying, there's some default config that needs changing so I can (even) reach 32,000 characters - any idea what or where that would be ? Nothing in apache2.conf that I can see...

Thanks,
Nick. . .