Post char limit

[Jade Elizabeth]

It would be nice if it told me I went over the limit and let me edit my post, instead of posting it and cutting it off.

I didn't think it would but it's pastebinned now but that's not the point, normal SMF does this, why doesn't this site?

[Kindred]

ummmm  "normal" smf does not do that....

[Arantor]

What limit do you have?

[Jade Elizabeth]

Yes it does Kindred, if I post a billion chars on my forum it gives me an error and I'm like "oh, ******, I will have to edit that" lol

Arantor it's here, I tried to post some code but I didnt realise it was too much. I pastebinned it for the post .


Sorry if I sound nasty, I'm dealing with an incredible migraine and I don't mean it .

[Kindred]

then you must have edited something... because SMF does not do that out of the box, as far as I know...

[Arantor]

I bet this is because it's hitting the TEXT limit and the column hasn't been resized to be MEDIUMTEXT.

This is one situation where it can do it and not inform the user if the limit is set to 0.

[Kindred]

ah. hmmm....

[Jade Elizabeth]

I hope this picture makes you crave bacon, take that as punishment for doubting there was an error message

[Arantor]

There is no error message in the scenario here.

Your site has the limit set to 60,000 characters. This site has the limit set to 0 so it never checks (so no error message). But there's still a *physical* limit in the database which will truncate the post if crossing it.

[Jade Elizabeth]

Ah ha! Okay so I suggest a limit is set since it can't be gone over anyway . Then I won't lose half a post.

[Arantor]

Even if a limit is set, it's theoretically possible in certain circumstances to stay under one limit and exceed the other and still have truncated posts. But quite rare in practice.

[SleePy]

Ah ha! Okay so I suggest a limit is set since it can't be gone over anyway . Then I won't lose half a post.

Your posting in the wrong board.  SMF issues go elsewhere

[Arantor]

It's specific to this site in this case.

[Jade Elizabeth]

Ah ha! Okay so I suggest a limit is set since it can't be gone over anyway . Then I won't lose half a post.

Your posting in the wrong board.  SMF issues go elsewhere

You didn't read the second line?

It would be nice if it told me I went over the limit and let me edit my post, instead of posting it and cutting it off.

I didn't think it would but it's pastebinned now but that's not the point, normal SMF does this, why doesn't this site?