Results page only displays partial record

Question

Hello everyone: I am new to this forum and would like to
request some help. I have searched and searched but cannot find the
answer to my problem on this forum or others.
I problem is as follows;
I have a results page which displays the complete version a a
single news story. I am pulling the story with a simple URL
Parameter. The PHP tage for the affected field contains a simple
nl2br statment and I am not using any complicated queries to pull
the data.
When I update the record from the update page I get no errors
of any kind, but when I load the page that displays the updated
record, the contents of the field in question is trucated.
I cannot see any problems with any of the code and I am quite
baffled by it.
Here is the code for the record display
<?php echo nl2br ($row_rsNews['story']); ?>
And this is the code for the update action
<?php
function GetSQLValueString($theValue, $theType,
$theDefinedValue = "", $theNotDefinedValue = "")
$theValue = (!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) ?
addslashes($theValue) : $theValue;
switch ($theType) {
case "text":
$theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" :
"NULL";
break;
case "long":
case "int":
$theValue = ($theValue != "") ? intval($theValue) : "NULL";
break;
case "double":
$theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . doubleval($theValue) .
"'" : "NULL";
break;
case "date":
$theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" :
"NULL";
break;
case "defined":
$theValue = ($theValue != "") ? $theDefinedValue :
$theNotDefinedValue;
break;
return $theValue;
$editFormAction = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
$editFormAction .= "?" .
htmlentities($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);
if ((isset($_POST["MM_update"])) &&
($_POST["MM_update"] == "updatenews")) {
$updateSQL = sprintf("UPDATE news SET `date`=%s,
subtitle=%s, title=%s, story=%s, image=%s, thumb=%s WHERE id=%s",
GetSQLValueString($_POST['date'], "date"),
GetSQLValueString($_POST['subtitle'], "text"),
GetSQLValueString($_POST['headline'], "text"),
GetSQLValueString($_POST['story'], "text"),
GetSQLValueString($_POST['image'], "text"),
GetSQLValueString($_POST['thumb'], "text"),
GetSQLValueString($_POST['id'], "int"));
mysql_select_db($database_ifbdb, $ifbdb);
$Result1 = mysql_query($updateSQL, $ifbdb) or
die(mysql_error());
$updateGoTo = "news_list.php";
if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
$updateGoTo .= (strpos($updateGoTo, '?')) ? "&" : "?";
$updateGoTo .= $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
header(sprintf("Location: %s", $updateGoTo));
$colname_rsNews = "-1";
if (isset($_GET['id'])) {
$colname_rsNews = (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) ? $_GET['id'] :
addslashes($_GET['id']);
mysql_select_db($database_ifbdb, $ifbdb);
$query_rsNews = sprintf("SELECT * FROM news WHERE id = %s",
$colname_rsNews);
$rsNews = mysql_query($query_rsNews, $ifbdb) or
die(mysql_error());
$row_rsNews = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsNews);
$totalRows_rsNews = mysql_num_rows($rsNews);
?>
I would truly appreciate any help this group can
offer.

Answer 1

Hi Gunther:
I am really quite embarrassed, about this but I think I found
the problem...
I had a look at the table configuration in MySQL
Administrator, and there was the problem staring me right in the
face.....
The field 'story' was set to VARCHAR(255) ! I reset it to
TEXT and all is fine now!
Please accept my sincerest thanks for your help. Your
suggestion to check if I was using a textarea is what led me to
check the datatye again. I have no idea how it got changed but I
now know where to check first if it happens again.
Thaks a ton!!!!!