Putting more characters at the forum description field...?
 

Hello there...

In my board I have several subforums.
Now, what I wanna do is that i want to be able to put more characters (than the number that is allowed now) into the description field of the forums...

Why do I need this?

as you see in the screenshot - I want to be able to put, in the forumhome page, links that will directly lead to the subforums...

problem is that the html code

takes it self a lot of characters. That leaves me with a very few left characters to use for the description... of the forum and the subfolders.

Moreover at the The Synthpop and Wave Avenue
I have 7 subforums... If I try to make them links.... I can't

So I need to find a way of increasing the allowed number of characters we can use for the description of a forum.

I hope Its clear what I'm asking for, and sorry if there is already a hack for this but I haven't found it even though I have searched...

thanx in advance

In phpMyAdmin, alter the description column in the forum table to be mediumtext.

thanx for the reply Filburt

here is what I get when I go to the table "forum"

http://www.synthpopavenue.gr/images/...s/myadmin1.jpg

and here is what I get for the description row :


http://www.synthpopavenue.gr/images/...s/myadmin2.jpg

so I guess I have to change the "type" to "mediumtext" right?

what does this mean? what is mediumtext?

also, what about the "length/values" field? do I have to increase that value?

wouldn't it be a solution to leave it as char and only increase the value to ... 500? or more?

thanx in advance

Right.

mediumtext holds more than CHAR(250).

No.

No because IIRC it only goes up to 255.

thanx.
It seems to be working great :cool: