picking up data from textarea before submitting the form

[conica]

I have a very big problem. I am working on a newssite online editor. One news has a lot of characters in the body, so i can't use post method and storing into a database (access-memo, the body sometimes has more than 65,548 char), so i am creating a new txt file, but i have to "pick up" the data from the textarea before submitting the form. i thought to enter the data directly to a variable but through the textarea couse of the editors.
is somebody knows the solution?

thanx
conica

 

[link9]

If I'm not mistaken (and I might be), a <textarea> will only hold 32,768 characters in the first place, so it may be a moot point.

 

[Phonez]

How do you mean by picking up the data from the text field. Are you wanting to validate it or write it before the rest of the form is submitted.