How to remove 65K character limit on messages

[DeveloperMcD]

I notice that messages (posts) are limited to a 16-bit value, or 65,535 characters.

However, I noticed that the database has the post "body" set to LARGETEXT which should be able to store 2.4 GB or something like that.

How can I remove this artificial limitation on post size?

[Biology Forums]

Change the body to medium text, also you'll need to change the limit on the function for createpost.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Don't have a 1.1 install, but in 2.0 you can try Admin -> Posts and Topics -> Post Settings.  Set 'Maximum allowed post size' to 0 for no limit.

[Biology Forums]

That doesn't work, unfortunately. It needs to be done manually

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

Change the body to medium text

This is definitely good advice.

also you'll need to change the limit on the function for createpost.

This I don't think is needed.

It needs to be done manually

And, I do believe not.

Just set the post limit size in the admin panel to something larger than 65K, but NOT 0.

Do take note that any limit you decide to set here, you will also have to make sure many other settings can cope with. Such as PHP limits and mysql limits.

[Arantor]

Wait.

This isn't that simple, changing it can break things.

If you are on 2.0, just change the size of allowed post characters to something bigger than 65536 and it'll convert, provided that you aren't using full text search, because full text indexes with mediumtext aren't supported.

Don't bother with largetext, that just eats space and you can't post a post big enough to fill even a mediumtext without reconfiguring MySQL anyway.

If you are on 1.1, upgrade to 2.0.

[Biology Forums]

I take back what I said about manually changing the code on 2.x. On 1.x however I remember precisely that it only worked after the medium text switch and manually altering the code

[Samuel28]

I notice that messages (posts) are limited to a 16-bit value of 65,535 characters.

However, I noticed that the database has the post "body" set to LARGETEXT which should be able to store 2.4 GB or something like that.

How can I remove this artificial limitation on post size?

I also have this same question and I cannot find any proper answers. need a solution.

[Arantor]

Step 1: upgrade to SMF 2.0, Step 2: change the limit in the settings to a number larger than 65536, Step 3: watch as SMF will fix it for you.

[Irisado]

I also have this same question and I cannot find any proper answers. need a solution.

Please do not revive such old topics in the future and start a new one instead.  Topic locked.