Increasing Forum Description Length

[glenv]

Can anyone tell me how to increase the forum description? I have one forum with a lengthy description but it cuts a large part of it off.

Thanks!

[zerzig]

Adding HTML to descriptions

I'd also like to know. I have categories with a number of subcategories that I would like to be links that go directly to the subcategory forum. I tried to make HTML links out of the subcategories but run out of space.

[Mike Sullivan]

ALTER TABLE forum CHANGE description description mediumtext NOT NULL;

[glenv]

Please be more specific. Pretend you're talking to someone that doesn't know where to look for the file you are talking about. Is this a template?

[zerzig]

ALTER TABLE forum CHANGE description description mediumtext NOT NULL;

glenv,
You have to make a change to the database. You are changing the field "description" in the table "forum" from "varchar(250)" to "mediumtext."

I did it with phpMyAdmin by copying and pasting Ed Sullivan's text into the "Run sql query/queries on database your_database" box.

You might want to backup first.

[glenv]

too scary for me....I will hope someone adds this feature to the final version

Thanks

[Removed-1078464]

[b][i]ALTER TABLE forum CHANGE description description mediumtext NOT NULL;[/i][/b]

When you say "Medium text" does that actually change the text size or just the amount of characters per forum description?

Thanks

Doug

[Steve Machol]

That changes the maximum number of characters allowed in that field.