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Kieran
Can I make this structure change to newbb database?
  • 2008/7/10 10:28

  • Kieran

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Hi

I have a problem with the titles on my forum (newbb)

I have 2 languages on my site and for each reader's forum post i translate the title of the post in to the other language

But this means that often the title length exceeds the limit of 255 characters (one language is non-western script so it takes up lots of characters).

So my question is can I simply change the structure of the topic_title field to a text one rather than varchar(255)?

I don't understand MySQL so well. Will making this change cause me performance issues? The forum is already quite large can I still make a structure change?

Thanks so much!!!

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Kieran
Re: Can I make this structure change to newbb database?
  • 2008/7/16 10:46

  • Kieran

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Can anyone help?

Has anyone else met this problem?

Thanks

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Kieran
Re: Can I make this structure change to newbb database?
  • 2008/7/21 2:52

  • Kieran

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Still hoping someone can advise me!

Is it ok to change the structure of a field (from varchar 255 to text)? The field is title in the newbb module and it already has quite a lot of entries.

Thanks

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