Pasting large message in chat gets cuts off

[vegasb2k]

PFC Version: 1.3
PHP Version: 5

Shared or Dedicated Hosting: Shared (Hostgator Reseller)
Link to your website: jagmediagroup.com/knock/

Are you able to reproduce the issue on the official demo (http://www.phpfreechat.net/demo)?
Yes, same issue.

Have you set any parameters?
If so, please include your entire code, using the [code ] and[/code ] tags (without the space).

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<?php

require_once dirname(__FILE__)."/src/phpfreechat.class.php";
$params = array();
$params["title"] = "Knock Knock Command Center";
$params["nick"] = "";  // setup the initial nickname
$params['firstisadmin'] = false;
//$params["isadmin"] = false; // makes everybody admin: do not use it on production servers ;)
$params["serverid"] = md5(__FILE__); // calculate a unique id for this chat
$params["debug"] = false;
$params['admins'] = array('Raybe46'  => '2knocks',
                          'WhiteRhino' => 'knock123');
$params[max_msg] = 5;
$params["timeout"] = 6000000;
$params['max_text_len'] = 400000;
$params['skip_proxies'] = array('noflood');
$chat = new phpFreeChat( $params );


?>

What is the issue you are experiencing in detail?

I am copying a text message from one site and pasting it into the chat message bar. When I submit the chat message, it cuts off the text after a short bit. (Not a text length setting issue). I thought there may be hidden code in the text, so I pasted it into notepad first, recopied it, re pasted it and same thing. I am hoping you may know what is causing this and a way to make it work. Its kind of important to us.

Here is the text of one sampe message causing an issue:

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Scouting at (705,539)
Dec 14, 07:47 PM
Report No: 6666136
Scouting Report
    Name   Count
No Units
    Name   Count
   Spiked Barrier   756
    Building   Levels
    Farm   9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
    Sawmill   7, 5, 5, 5, 5
    Quarry   7, 6, 6
    Mine   8, 7
    Resource   Quantity
   Food   826,574
   Wood   345,946
   Stone   679,170
   Ore   12,081
Research   Levels
Fertilizer   9
Logging   6
Stoneworking   7
Mining   8
Geometry   7
Eagle Eyes   8
Poisoned Edge   8
Metal Alloys   8
Featherweight Powder   5
Magical Mapping   5
Alloy Horseshoes   8
Fletching   8
Shrinking Powder   6
Healing Potions   5
Giant's Strength   7
Battle Report - Victory
Attackers (Valkyrie2) - (208,2)Winner
    Troops   Fought   Survived
   Scout   1   1
Defenders (rsayloriii)
No Troops Defended

This is all that shows up in the chat:

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Scouting at (705,539) Dec 14, 07:47 PM Report No: 6666136 Scouting Report

Are you seeing any error messages, such as javascript errors?
No error messages, just limited text in the message.


Thank you in advance for any help!

Greg

[OldWolf]

I would inspect the text bar element and see if it has a setting for the length of the text... it's possible it does, or that the browser is imposing one.

[vegasb2k]

Thanks for the quick reply.

It doesn't appear to be browser dependent as I have tried different browser and computers (IE and FF). And I can see the entire text in the message bar before I submit and I can hand type a message just as long and it will show up and work.

It seems as if it is picking up 'hard returns' somehow or something that is triggering it.

I don't know if there is a way (or parameter) to overlook these possibilities.

(Sorry if I don't know the exact terminology, just the concept. I seem to be good at isolating the issue, just don't know what else to look for on the other side).

[vegasb2k]

Well, I found a temporary fix to the problem.

I can pastes the copied text into the tool at http://www.textfixer.com/tools/remove-white-spaces.php and choose to 'replace both multiple whitespaces and tabs with a single space' and then paste the clean text into chat and it works just fine.

Now just wondering if someone knows how to have the chat software ignore the tabs/whitespaces and still show the entire text.

Thanks again

[OldWolf]

To be frank, no, you're going to just have to dig into the code to find where it handles the output and figure out what it's not liking. :/