Hello! Here is what I am trying to do. I want users of my website to sign my guestbook which has to textarea fields for comments. What I have come to realize is that when I post more than around 256 characters into a Memo field in an MS Access database, it doesn't insert anything (no record at all). There was a similar post a looong time ago but it doesn't sound like there was any definite solution. I know most people will not be using MS Access, but surely someone else has needed to use it and come across this problem. For your reference, the previous post was: http://www.perlmonks.com/index.pl?node_id=39296&lastnode_id=3989 Now, for my code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use CGI qw(:all);
use CGI;
use DBI;

my $myCGI = new CGI;
print "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n";

my $name = $myCGI->param('txtName');
my $email = $myCGI->param('txtEmail');
my $country = $myCGI->param('txtCountry');
my $website = $myCGI->param('txtWebsite');
my $publicmessage = $myCGI->param('txtPublic');
my $privatemessage = $myCGI->param('txtPrivate');


my $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:ODBC:whatever', 'whatever', 'whatever');

#$dbh->do("set textsize 25000"); 
#$dbh->{LongReadLen} = 50000;
#$dbh->{LongTruncOk} = 1;


my $sth = $dbh->prepare(q{
INSERT INTO tblGuestbook
  (name, email, country, website, publicmessage, privatemessage, IP)
values
  (?,?,?,?,?,?,?)
});

$sth->execute($name,$email,$country,$website,$publicmessage,$privateme
+ssage,$ENV{REMOTE_ADDR});

$sth->finish;
$dbh->disconnect;
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Notice the three commented fields which I have tried to use with no luck. I would greatly appreciate any comments (and code!) from anyone who has a solution to this. Thank you! Andrew

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