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Whenever I try to post a long story using HTML, The story does not save. I get a blank screen. If I do a preview, I get my site with a blank space where the story should be. I do not know if it is due to length or some other limitation. I have searched the forums, and cannot find the length of a story, but this one is at about 900 words. It shows up fine in plain text, but will not convert to html.

So did you try saving a (much) smaller HTML story?

Also, you may have an error in your HTML that messes up the display or causes the HTML filter to filter out parts of your story.

bye, Dirk

Yes, It works fine with a smaller story. The limit is somewhere in the 800 word area. The html is only paragraph markers. Is there a limit somewhere in the code that needs to be modified??

Geeklog itself doesn't have a limit here.

The story text is stored in a MySQL TEXT field, which is limited to 64K. Also, your browser, webserver, PHP (or PHP settings) and the HTTP protocol may impose limits when sending the story's text (not sure what all those limits are).

bye, Dirk

Is the 64K limit yours, or MySQL?? If it is Mysql, am I going to mess up anything else if I change it?? BTW, thanks for the help, you are very fast at answering these things.

It's MySQL's limit for a field of type "TEXT". You could try changing the field type to "MEDIUMTEXT" or "LONGTEXT". Geeklog won't care but, as I said, the actual limitiation may be elsewhere ...

bye, Dirk

It's MySQL. It is a configuration setting and unless you have your own server, you probabbly will not be able to change it.

It shouldn't mess anything up if you change it. But than again, I haven't tried it yet.

I have my own server, and am willing to try it. Can someone tell me the command to do it?? I will gladly report back and let you know if there are any issues with doing this. I am also going to see if I can mutter through the MySql docs and find the command on my own.

I found it and changed it in MySQL. There is no difference. I changed the bodytext column in the gl_stories table to longtext, and there is no change. Where else can I look to resolve this??

I found the problem. It is something to do with the <pre> tags. They are gone in the HTML after the preview, and I guess that is messing something else up. I went through all of my HTML, made sure all of my tags were clean opens and closes, and previewed. It worked like a charm.

Not sure why this happened, but like I mentioned, after a priview, the <pre> tags are all missing from the html section.

I would check your config.php to see if the filter for admin/user html is configured correctly as far as 'pre' is concerned.