in reply to Re: Re: andling form data
in thread Putting a long form into a database

If the browser doesn't pass the empty field (which most browsers don't I think), then it won't be set at all (that is part of the purpose of enumerating the fieldnames in the INSERT statement) and it's value will be whatever default you set up for the table - most probably NULL or empty string.

If the browser does pass fields without values entered, then they will be set to empty string in the database.