Saving big string in php using quercus

[Yutani]

I'm using quercus for appengine. I tried saving a long php string (> 1000 characters) but appengine won't allow me as String can only hold 500 characters. So I tried using appengine's Text datatype. It lets me save, however, when I retrieve the data from PHP, it returns me a resource() type instead of string.Let me explain with code:\[code\]<?php$a = new Text("this is a long string that contains more than 1000 characters");$b = "this is a long string that contains more than 1000 characters";$e = new Entity('Article');$e->setProperty('content', $a); // this works fine// $e->setProperty('content', $b); // will complain as strlen($b) is > 500$db = DatastoreServiceFactory::getDatastoreService();$id = KeyFactory::keyToString($db->put($e)); // works ok, returns the ID of Entity saved?>\[/code\]Now all's fine and dandy, but when I retrieve the content of $e, it will return me a resource() type data.\[code\]<?php$q = new Query('Article');$ps = $db->prepare($q);foreach($ps->asIterable() as $i) { echo gettype($i->getProperty('content')); // this will echo Object, which when var_dump'd, gives me a resource() which is not convertible to php string, thus I can't get the human readable value}?>\[/code\]Is there any workaround to this? Any help is GREATLY appreciated as I've been pulling my hair for days...