Comment Length Problem

[kpervine]

When I post a comment of any size, the post is incomplete and I get the following:
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Admin reply: Coke – no special requirement, just wanted it cold.

In a reasonable amount of time, given the customer base, I received my breakfast. As it was around 11am and I had not had anything to eat, it was a welcome site cause my big intestines had begun eating my little intestines. Well, almost a welcome site.
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I did not select Private Post.

Do not have a clue as to why Admin reply is included. The text to right of admin reply is about 1/3 down the comments section. The next paragraph(s) are as intended.

I have the comment parameter set to unlimited but it either is not working or I have missed another parameter somewhere in the process.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Have a great day.

Ken

[Klemen]

Have you been modifying gbook.php or the entries file manually?

Please post a link to your guestbook and also upload this phpinfo file to your server and post a link to it here:
http://www.phpjunkyard.com/extras/phpinfo.zip

[kpervine]

Guestbook page is:

http://www.bladenonline.com/gbook17/gbook.php

[kpervine]

Link to phpinfo is here: http://www.bladenonline.com/phpinfo.php

[Klemen]

I was able to post a message without any problems?

When exactly does that problem occur? What text are you trying to post?

[kpervine]

This is the text I'm trying to post. I type it in Microsoft Word and then copy/paste it into the guestbook. I've tried it several times and get the results posted above.
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Recently I went out to eat breakfast and ordered the following after someone finally asked what I wanted:

Two eggs – over medium, egg white done but do not care about the yoke. I do not eat runny white.
Hash browns – tossed about and brown all over.
Toast – white toast plain, no butter.
Coke – no special requirement, just wanted it cold.

In a reasonable amount of time, given the customer base, I received my breakfast. As it was around 11am and I had not had anything to eat, it was a welcome site cause my big intestines had begun eating my little intestines. Well, almost a welcome site.

I look at the hash browns, they were not tossed and not brown except on the top and maybe on the bottom. The rest were just a glob of potato strings all cuddled together. If I am gonna eat mushed tatters, I like em with gravy.

Then I took my fork and tried to jiggle the eggs and in fact, they did jiggle. When eggs, supposedly over medium, jiggle, that’s a sure sign the egg white is not done. I took my fork and scraped back the cooked egg topping from the edge of the egg yoke and sure enough, underneath the cooked egg topping the egg white looked like some sorta soup.

Then I looked at the toast, sure enough it was white toast but when separating the pieces, I noticed they were saturated with butter.

The coke was cold, what a welcome blessing.

In a dilemma, I sat there and waited for the waitress to return. Upon her return she asked, how were things. To which I said, the eggs are not done, the hash browns are not tossed and brown and the white toast has butter on it. To which she looked towards the grill and blamed it on the cook.

I was somewhat confused, seems quality control has gone to the dogs. Let me see if I can dissect this. The waitress took the order and should be able to read her own writing. Afterwards, as I see it, she should have inspected the order for exactness prior to taking it from the grill and sitting it on the table. It nothing else, it should have been obvious to the casual observer the hash browns were not as ordered. What if I’d ordered bacon and the plate contained sausage instead?

Anyway, the cook should certainly have some responsibility or at least that is what I thought. But to what extent for when the order was placed, the waitress stood at the end of the counter and shouted out the order to the cook(s)—there were three of them. So, this was not a case of the cook not being able to read the order sheet cause they did not get one. Along with my order, the cooks are responsible for remembering what several other customers ordered while being yelled at from the various waitresses. That must take some smarts or does it? I don’t know about you, but I don’t respond very well to being yelled at.

Whatever happened to placing the order sheets on a clipboard and hanging them above the grill, so the cook(s) can refer to the sheet throughout the ordeal? Remember the little clothes line device used to rotate the order sheets around the grill—I always thought that was neat. That would certainly make sense when the place is packed with customers while not necessarily so when only a few customers--I guess. But then again, that would take the fun outta the waitress(es) standing at the end of the counter and shouting out the order(s). I even noticed one waitress placing an order and then having to change the order after she misread her order sheet. Wow, I thought to myself, that grillmaster must be some kinda smart human bean.

So, I guess my question is, who is responsible for getting the order right? I’ve never heard the grillmaster blame the waitress cause I never come in contact with the grillmaster. Yet, it seems it’s always the grillmaster’s fault as the waitress/waitresses almost never blame themselves.

Go figure!!
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Thanks for your help.

[Klemen]

I was able to post this on your guestbook normally. It's possible Word is squeezing in hidden bytes of code causing problems.

Try it yourself, but copy the text from here (or from a plain text editor such as Notepad) rather then from Word.

[kpervine]

I copied fm Word to NotePad and rec'd the following:
I will try coping from your post and see what happens. Thanks again.
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Admin reply: Coke – no special requirement, just iced down and cold.

In a reasonable amount of time, given the customer base, breakfast was upon me. As it was around 11am and I had not had anything to eat, it was a welcome site cause my big intestines had begun eating my little intestines. Well, almost a welcome site.

I look at the hash browns, they were not tossed and not browned except on the top and maybe on the bottom. The rest were just a glob of potato strings all cuddled together. If I am gonna eat mushy tatters, I like em with gravy.
Then I took my fork and tried to jiggle the egg white and in fact, it did jiggle. When eggs, supposedly over medium, jiggle in the egg white are, that’s a sure sign the egg white is not done. I took my fork and scraped back the cooked egg topping from the edge of the egg yoke and sure enough, underneath the cooked egg topping the egg white looked like some sorta clam chowder, which I don’t eat either.

Then I looked at the toast, sure enough it was white toast but upon separating the pieces, I found them to be saturated with butter.

The coke was iced down and cold, what a welcome blessing.

In a dilemma, I sat there and waited for the waitress to return. Upon her return she asked, how were things. To which I said, the eggs whites are not done, the hash browns are not tossed and browned and the white toast has butter on it. To which she looked towards the grill and blamed it on the chef.

I was somewhat confused, seems quality control has gone out the window. Let me see if I can dissect this. The waitress took the order and should be able to read her own writing. Afterwards, as I see it, she should have inspected the order for exactness prior to taking it from the grill and sitting it on the table. If nothing else, it should have been obvious to the casual observer the hash browns were not as ordered. I really didn’t expect her to peel back the cover on the egg whites. What if I’d ordered bacon and the plate contained sausage instead? Would the waitress have noticed, it seems not.

Anyway, the chef should certainly have some responsibility or at least that is what I thought to myself. But to what extent for when the order was placed, the waitress stood at the end of the counter and shouted it out to the chefs(s)—of which there were three. So, this was not a case of the cook not being able to read the order sheet cause he did not get one. Along with my order, the cooks are responsible for remembering what several other customers ordered while being yelled at/to by the various waitresses. That must take some smarts or does it? I don’t know about you, but I don’t respond very well to being yelled at.

Whatever happened to placing the order sheets on a clipboard hanging above the grill so the chef(s) can refer to them throughout the ordeal? Remember the little clothes line device used to rotate the order sheets around the grill—I always thought that was neat but apparently has been overcome by events-yelling to the chef. The little clothes line method would certainly make sense when the restaurant is packed with customers while not necessarily so when only a few customers--I guess. But then again, that would take the fun outta the waitress(es) standing at the end of the counter and shouting out the order(s). I even noticed one waitress placing an order and then having to change the order after she misread her order sheet. Wow, I thought to myself, that chef must be some kinda smart human bean. Wonder how that order came out? Did they take the original order to the customer and then have to return with the corrected version?

So, I guess my question is, who is responsible for getting the order right? I’ve never heard the chef blame the waitress cause I never come in contact with the chef. Yet, it seems it’s always the chef’s fault as the waitress/waitresses almost never blame themselves. Or, should I just have eaten the food as was server and gone on about my business? Who am I, do I have any reason to expect my order to be as requested, even since I am paying for it?

Go figure!!

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Added: Hash browns – tossed about and browned all over.

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[kpervine]

The only thing that works is to copy the text into a web page and publish it to a web site, copy it from there and paste into the GB. Can't imagine what the issue is but I can get around it by doing that.

[Klemen]

Could you email me the Word file that you originally tested from? I would like to run a few test and possibly find the reason/fix. If you are willing to, please send it to info (at) phpjunkyard (dot) com