Thread title over flow

I have searched for this to no avail. I am finishing off a template. I have images in the category bars and am happy with the look.

The trouble is that thread titles that are too long have a line break and ruin the effect of the images in the thread title category bar. I am searching for the variable to change the amount of allowable charcters in a thread title.

I hope this is not a rudimentary question that has been asked before. Thanks to all who look.

[Davey]

1) Open up the editpost template and find this line:
<td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}"><normalfont><input type="text" class="bginput" name="title" value="$postinfo[title]" size="40" maxlength="85" tabindex="1"></normalfont></td>
2) Change:
maxlength="85"
to the value of the maximum length of characters you want in the subject.
3) Save the editpost template.
4) Open up the newreply template and find this line of code:
<td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}"><normalfont><input type="text" class="bginput" name="title" value="$title" size="40" maxlength="85" tabindex="1"></normalfont> <smallfont>(Optional)</smallfont></td>
5) Change:
maxlength="85"
to the value of the maximum length of characters you want in the subject.
6) Save the newreply template.
7) Open up the newthread template and find this line:
<td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}"><normalfont><input type="text" class="bginput" name="subject" value="$subject" size="40" maxlength="85" tabindex="1"></normalfont></td>
8) Change:
maxlength="85"
to the value of the maximum length of characters you want in the subject.
9) Save the newthread template.
10) Open up the template threads_editthread and find the line:
<td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}" width="27%"><normalfont><input type="text" class="bginput" name="title" value="$threadinfo[title]" size="50" maxlength="85"></normalfont></td>
11) Change:
maxlength="85"
to the value of the maximum length of characters you want in the subject.
12) Save the threads_editthread template.
13) Open the threads_merge template and find:
<td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}" width="27%"><normalfont><input type="text" class="bginput" name="title" value="$threadinfo[title]" size="50" maxlength="85"></normalfont></td>
14) Change:
maxlength="85"
to the value of the maximum length of characters you want in the subject.
15) Save the threads_merge template.
That's it.
I'm sure Xenon can come up with a simpler way to do it through a PHP file edit, but this is the only way I'd have done it.

Dave.

PS: To do it with the calendar event's too:
16) Open the calendar_enterevent template and find:
<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}"><input type="text" class="bginput" name="subject" value="$subject" size="50" maxlength="50" tabindex="4"></td>
17) Change:
maxlength="50"
to the value of the maximum length of characters you want in the subject.
18) Save the calendar_enterevent template.

[Dean C]

This is to do with the forumhome templates davey. There is no obvious fix for this other than extending the tables or shortening the category name

- miSt

[Milez]

Wow thanks for the quick reply guys!

Uhm...Jeez thats alot of edits. Uhm you sure you didn't miss any Mist? I have alot of hours on this board and dont want to add too many more :nervous:

I was kind of hoping for this to be more than an afterthought for vbb but a quick browse of the php reveals no variable for this. I guess my only option is to change all of the text box maxlength variable to a shorter value? Ick.

I will give your edits a try, thanks for the post.

[Xenon]

Originally posted by Davey
I'm sure Xenon can come up with a simpler way to do it through a PHP file edit, but this is the only way I'd have done it.

Dave.

*ggg* thanx

Hmm, what about the simplest way?
going into phpmyadmin and reduce the max length of thread title and post title?

i don't know if it would hurt anywhere but that would be the simplest thing