Unlimited Characters in Profile Field

[kaotic]

It looks like a custom profile field has a limit of 250 characters. There's a field on my site that sometimes requires anywhere from 500 to 1000 characters. I would like a hack that removes the max character limit in custom profile fields.

[Xenon]

this questions has been answered severla times, try searching throug request forums.

hint: you have to change the fields of the table :)

[kaotic]

Meh... I did look around. Thanks for the hint, I guess. :p

[kaotic]

Alright, I looked around for a while... with no luck. I went into the mysql db and fooled around... with no luck. So if anybody else thinks that they can tip me off in the right direction, I would appreciate it. Thanks.

[Gary King]

Have you tried changing the maxlength column value in the profilefield table?

[kaotic]

Yes, I upped it to 999 with no results.

[kaotic]

Bah... I've been searching for quite a while and still have no answer. Perhaps you can go ahead and tell me now?? :)

[noonespecial]

Bah... I've been searching for quite a while and still have no answer. Perhaps you can go ahead and tell me now?? :)
anyone?

[NTLDR]

You'll need to change the field type in the database in the userfield table, I don't know what column as I don't have vB2 installed, changing it to TEXT for example will allow alot more text.

[Gary King]

They currently go up to 250 characters, for everyone's information (FEI) :)

[noonespecial]

You'll need to change the field type in the database in the userfield table, I don't know what column as I don't have vB2 installed, changing it to TEXT for example will allow alot more text.
I am using vb3 .. how do u do it in that? tried changing a few things to medium text, but so far still no luck ..

i changed: profilefield - field: maxlength to mediumtext -- and that didn't seem to work. i'll try userfield now.

[Gary King]

This is the wrong forum for vB 3 hack requests anyways.

[NTLDR]

In vB3 it seems to be based on what input method you select. If you choose a muti-line select box you should be able to enter more than the 250/255 limit that the others seem to have.

[Gary King]

Also, just change the maximum length to a high number, did you try that? It's generally not a good idea to have a field to unlimited characters anyways, in any situation. Maybe put 1,000 chars or something.