Forum Title ?!

[Forum Lover]

How can I increase forum titles length? I am using unicode to translate my forums title and found that default word/letter counts are not enough for me.

Any tips guys? :) Thanks in advance.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Just change he length of the column in the database.

[Forum Lover]

Thanks Marco, newbie is here.

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/7526/14447267kp7.jpg

I was asking, please check the last sub forum... when you choose a bit bigger name, its not coming all.. at the end its showing "&" sign.

But when I choose smaller title, its ok. I think there is a limitation on how many letters that we can put as forum title.. right?!

If I need to get it done by changing anything from database, can you be please a bit more elaborated. :)

Thanks again. I think if I can change the limits, that will do.. but how? :(

[Marco van Herwaarden]

You would need to change the 'title' and 'title_clean' columns in the 'forum' table using a tool like phpMyAdmin.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

You can also run the following manual query (make a backup of your database before performing manual changes):

ALTER TABLE `forum`
CHANGE COLUMN title title VARCHAR(255)NOT NULL DEFAULT ''
,CHANGE COLUMN title_clean title_clean VARCHAR(255)NOT NULL DEFAULT '';

[Forum Lover]

Marco, it was varchar(100) and I changed to varchar(200).. in both title and title_clean, but still no luck. :(

EDIT:

The SQL Query you gave, its working fine its changing the varchar.. but still no luck in titles when I renaming those in unicode. :(

[Marco van Herwaarden]

You will need to set the title again for the forums that had problems with the length of the title.

[Forum Lover]

Yeah Marco, I did that already. But still no luck. :(

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Guess what!! I was using your hack to change my titles... I have just noticed. :)

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=100589&page=6&highlight=language

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Then you will need to do the same for the title and title_clean columns in the mh_fl_forum_language table.

[Forum Lover]

Thanks Marco, its perfect now. :D

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if vBulletin would have or if "pharses would work -- all would be well.

tried it - using a phrase in the forum title in the admin cp and dont' work.
Is there a way this could be done and work ?

I just wonder Marco. :)