Can I increase topic length?

[NXN]

I'm using smf 1.05 and set charset to utf-8
at first I didn't notice about the topic length but later I found that when I post a long topic name will cause SMF to change it to a short one

Can I increase the topic length?


So sorry about my English :p

[[Unknown]]

First, run this query:

ALTER TABLE smf_messages
CHANGE COLUMN subject subject text;

What is phpMyAdmin?

And then, remove the following to sections from Sources/Post.php:

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// Make sure the subject isn't too long.
if (strlen($form_subject) > 100)
$form_subject = substr($form_subject, 0, 100);

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// At this point, we want to make sure the subject isn't too long.  Stripslashes first to avoid a trailing slash.
if (isset($_POST['subject']) && strlen(stripslashes($_POST['subject'])) > 100)
$_POST['subject'] = addslashes(substr(stripslashes($_POST['subject']), 0, 100));

How do I modify files?

-[Unknown]

[Oldiesmann]

Don't forget this part too...

Themes/default/Post.template.php

Find

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<input type="text" name="subject"', $context['subject'] == '' ? '' : ' value="' . $context['subject'] . '"', ' size="80" maxlength="80" tabindex="1" />

Remove the maxlength="80" part.

[au8ust]

It seems not working with v1.1.2
I can't make a long topic name but I can later edit it manually to get longer topic name

Any idea on this?

[au8ust]

No one?

Help please

[SleePy]

Is this issue solved or do you still require assistant?

What part is not working?

[au8ust]

So sorry for my late answer, I just get it working a month ago. It seems to be problem with DB, so I just install to new DB and modify it as [Unknown]'s advice.

Thanks!

[ElectricSquid]

With more recent versions of SMF, like SMF 1.1.10, do we still need to do a database query?

First, run this query:

ALTER TABLE smf_messages
CHANGE COLUMN subject subject text;

I modified Sources/Post and default/Post like suggested above and everything seems to work without issue. I was wondering if the database query is even needed anymore.


(if you do a site search for "increase topic length", this topic from 2005 is the result)