Extend forum title lenght?
 

Hello,

This is how I want my forums to look...

http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/2617/forummw4.png

Which all looks groovy, however due to the character limit placed on the Forum Title it was a bit of a botch job.

This is my Forum title line;

So I haven't closed the tags properly, and I had to proceed my description with the additonal 3 </font> tags required to make it appear in regular colour. This problem also causes the "number of people viewing the forum" info to appear yellow/green/red/blue for respective forums, as well as messing with the forum permissions page;

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/8624/forum2jw8.png

I'm not really concerned by the white forum titles,s more the yellow and green bits that arise from the tags not being closed. So basically is there a way to make the forum title allow more characters, and if so, how?

Run the following queries:

[sql]ALTER TABLE forum CHANGE COLUMN `title` `title` varchar(250) NOT NULL default '';[/sql]

[sql]ALTER TABLE forum CHANGE COLUMN `title_clean` `title_clean` varchar(250) NOT NULL default '';[/sql]

I tried running them from the Admin CP but it told me it couldn't find the tables (because I prefixed all mine with vb_), so I had to log on to the server and do it via MySQL Admin. It's not a big thing, but is there a way I can make it so when it runs via the Admin CP it knows all tables begin vb_, so can therefore find the required tables?

Thanks for your reply though, managed to get it working now :D (Also changed from <font> to <span> tags because <font> doesn't show properly in IE)

If you are using a prefix, then you will need to add it in front of the table name.

Ahh, simple. Sorry I was being a bit dumb, thanks. Problems solved.