Is there a limit on forum descriptions?

[Gutspiller]

I have a hack installed that gives you a popup window, but I have already posted in the thread and not getting any help. I was wondering if it's part of VB that has a description character limit and if there is a way to turn it off.

One of the main reasons I installed the hack with the popups was so that it would hide long detailed descriptions of my forum when somebody wasn't rolling their mouse over my [forum description] buttons.

[filburt1]

The limit is based on the field type for the description of the forum table. Change it to TEXT to have more than enough space for a description.

[Gutspiller]

Today at 06:57 PM filburt1 said this in Post #2 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=382297#post382297)
The limit is based on the field type for the description of the forum table. Change it to TEXT to have more than enough space for a description.


Could you tell me where I might find that code and what I change it to? :ermm:

[Rose]

I can't speak for Filburt, of course. But I imagine he is referring to the actual table in the db. Go into phpmyadmin and click on the "properties" button of your forum table. In the properties, you can change the 'descriptions' section to text instead of the default "char(250)" (which I think limits characters to 250). :)

[Link14716]

Or run this query:
ALTER TABLE `forum` CHANGE `description` `description` TEXT NOT NULL

[Gutspiller]

Today at 09:41 PM Link14716 said this in Post #5 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=382335#post382335)
Or run this query:
ALTER TABLE `forum` CHANGE `description` `description` TEXT NOT NULL


Well I found out that the popup wasn't appearing because I had a " ' " in "that's" which was causing it, but now with that table changed I shouldn't have a problem even if I was gonna. :)

Many thanks for such a quick reply. Now I have to create so uber long descriptions of my forums. :laugh: