On 3/17/06, Kent Johnson <kent37@[...].net>  wrote:
>  Adam Cripps wrote:
>  > I'm trying to build a mini-CMS for my class to manage a single
>  > webpage, using CGI and mysql. The children will be storing their main
>  > content in a BLOB within a Mysql database.
>  >
>  > When I query the content column, I get a strange return like this:
>  >
>  > array('c', 'This is a test ')
>  >
>  > - when the only text I entered in was 'This is a test'.
> 
>  MySQL is apparently returning an array.array object, not a string. Just
>  call tostring() on it to get a printable string.
> 
>  Why are you using a BLOB when the content is text?

Thanks.

I'm using BLOB because I want them to be able to write content that is
longer than 255 chars.

Adam
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