Exstra characters in the forum descriptions?

[mariannet]

In our childrens forum, the kids have shops (subforums) where they sell graphics they make to other members (virtual currency).

They can win prices in form of graphics that are displayed in the forum description.

Our problem now is that there are too few characteres allowed in the forum description to display more than one price.

Is there any way for us to change the allowed number of characters in the forum descriptions?

[Jake Bunce]

Run this query on your database:

ALTER TABLE forum CHANGE description description MEDIUMTEXT NOT NULL

If you use table prefixes then you need to change forum to include the prefix. Backup first.

You can run this query in your:

Admin CP -> Import & Maintenance -> Execute SQL Query

Make sure your userid is entered into your includes/config.php file so you have permission to run queries:

// ****** USERS WITH QUERY RUNNING PERMISSIONS ******
// The users specified here will be allowed to run queries from the control panel.
// See the above entries for more information on the format.
// Please note that the ability to run queries is quite powerful. You may wish
// to remove all user IDs from this list for security reasons.
$canrunqueries = '';

[mariannet]

Run this query on your database:

ALTER TABLE forum CHANGE description description MEDIUMTEXT NOT NULL

If you use table prefixes then you need to change forum to include the prefix. Backup first.

You can run this query in your:

Admin CP -> Import & Maintenance -> Execute SQL Query

Make sure your userid is entered into your includes/config.php file so you have permission to run queries:

// ****** USERS WITH QUERY RUNNING PERMISSIONS ******
// The users specified here will be allowed to run queries from the control panel.
// See the above entries for more information on the format.
// Please note that the ability to run queries is quite powerful. You may wish
// to remove all user IDs from this list for security reasons.
$canrunqueries = '';

Thank you so much. It worked!