How I increase character limit in Announcement box?

[adigicam]

PP5
It's Only 200 Character how I can make it more?????

[Chuck S]

I show in adm-cats.php this line

<td class=\"{$Style['tddetails']}\"><textarea name=\"introcopy-$id\" cols=\"30\" rows=\"10\">$introcopy</textarea></td></tr>


It is 30 columns and 10 rows. You can up that if you like.

[adigicam]

Thanks omegatron

[bluemi]

Hm, this doesn't seem to change the 200 character limit for me...

[Chuck S]

There is no max limit placed on that entry other than the character or rows it has.

[bluemi]

But in the admin area it says exactly this "200 character limit", and it does cut anything off beyond.

[Michael P]

There was a 200 character limit with the first PP5, but the current release allows for an unlimited number as people wanted more space to use HTML.

[bluemi]

Then I must have missed a file in the update, I'm using 5.11. Will check, thanks.

[bluemi]

No, still can't change this. 200 character limit...

[Michael P]

If you have phpmyadmin, check your categories table; is the introcopy field a "text" type and not a varchar(200)? You can change this using phpmyadmin or I can give you an SQL to try if it is still a varchar.

[bluemi]

It's "text" type.

[Michael P]

Okay, my apologies, I just went back and reread what you wrote the first time and you aren't talking about the category intros, you were talking about the announcement variable (which is set in the settings table) which is a global thing.

There is a 200 character limit for this field that I do not suggest you change the data type for.

[bluemi]

Ok, thanks Michael. So no way to increase it?

[Michael P]

I wouldn't recommend it; the settings table uses a varchar(200) for all the settings; to change it to text would probably have a negative impact on performance. I also am not sure if it would break anything else in the process as I've never tried it.

[bluemi]

Ok, then I'll leave it. Thanks!