How can i increase the Forum titles length?

[kyrenator]

Hello i have recently created a site with vbulletin and i would like to add a title to a Forum with 50 characters! When i am typing the text it automatically makes the title like this
"This is my beautif&#" but i have written "This is my beautiful forum!"!

How can i fix this?

[nexialys]

the character you use is illegal, that's why it is cropped... you need to verify how you type your forumtitles...

[kyrenator]

what do you mean "illegal characters" and how can i verify the forumtitles?

[Lynne]

Hmmm, I was just able to enter 100 characters into that field. Are you using 50 as an example or do your really mean 50? However, I may have changed my database for it, I can't remember. Unfortunately, that is the way you have to change things - the database says type varchar(100) for that field (that's what mine says, maybe yours says varchar(50)) and so you will have to actually change this field in the database. It's in the table 'forum' and the field name is 'title'

[Biker_GA]

Just checked mine, and it's also set to 100. Don't think I've changed it. Then again, I've made a ton of changes over the past 8 years. LOL

[BSMedia]

Its 100 on a new default install.

Sounds like a character encoding issue

[kyrenator]

i dont mean for topic titles! I mean for forum titles(names)!

[Lynne]

I am talking about forum titles. I said I was talking about the table "forum" and the field name "title".

[kyrenator]

You are right! With english i can type 100 chars but with greek i can type only 20! :(
How can i fix this?

[Lynne]

You are right! With english i can type 100 chars but with greek i can type only 20! :(
How can i fix this?
I already told you what you had to do.
Hmmm, I was just able to enter 100 characters into that field. Are you using 50 as an example or do your really mean 50? However, I may have changed my database for it, I can't remember. Unfortunately, that is the way you have to change things - the database says type varchar(100) for that field (that's what mine says, maybe yours says varchar(50)) and so you will have to actually change this field in the database. It's in the table 'forum' and the field name is 'title'

[SatSeeker]

Hi Lynne,

Thanks for the answer, but would you please be more specific on how to get to the table "forum" with the field "title"?

Thanks

[Lynne]

If you aren't familiar with modifying your database, then you should get someone else to do it for you. If you do the wrong thing, who knows what would happen and I know I don't want to be responsible for you doing something to your site.

[Biker_GA]

It cannot be done via vBulletin. If you have access to MySQL, it can be done there. Ensure you make a backup of your DB prior to making ANY manual change to the database.

[SatSeeker]

If you aren't familiar with modifying your database, then you should get someone else to do it for you. If you do the wrong thing, who knows what would happen and I know I don't want to be responsible for you doing something to your site.

Thanks for your concern... Yes, I'm familiar with the database ... and trust me, I'll not blame you for any wrong doing. So, would you please tell me how to get to this "forum" & "title" settings.

Many thanks

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It cannot be done via vBulletin. If you have access to MySQL, it can be done there. Ensure you make a backup of your DB prior to making ANY manual change to the database.

Okay... thanks!

[Lynne]

Well, you would use whatever method you use to modify your database (phpMyAdmin? ssh?) and then alter the field "title" in your "forum" table. I'm not sure how to describe this... if you have modified your database before, then you should know what to do to modify a field in a table.

[SatSeeker]

Thanks to kyrenator for having this question raised. And largely, big thanks to Lynne and Biker_GA for pointing me to the right direction.

Just want to update if someone have the same issue then please take a look at the attachments for detail changes that I made to the database which fixed the "long forum title" in Forum Manager.

1. I'm using PHPmyAdmin then click under the forum links to open the forum's database
2. it should be listed as shown in the snapshot
3. then select "forum" and click on "title" field with the "change" (pencil icon) to edit
4. after making the change from 100 to 200 character, then click Save

That's all! And by-the-way, I took a risk of not backing up my database prior to do this, but seems like there is no problem afterward and now I can pretty much name the forum title as long as I want.

Again, Thank You all for your help!

You guys are great!