[RFC] Bigger topic title lenght limit

[Vinny]

How many times have you guys hit the topic character limit? I know I did, especially if its a news forum which I know it isn't the primary reason to use phpBB but I think its a fair request.

Doing changes directly on the database could be a bit scary if you don't know what you're doing. So I'm requesting to make more space for topic titles or let admins configure it they want to, because I know this could break some templates.

Ticket: http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-10640
PR: https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb3/pull/571

[brunoais]

By stating bigger.... How bigger are you thinking?

[Oleg]

I think we should definitely expand it as I ran into it recently on area51. Maybe to 2x the current size.

[MichaelC]

I think we should definitely expand it as I ran into it recently on area51. Maybe to 2x the current size.

+1. Its way too easy to run into it at the moment. Its 64 characters.

I'll take a look at a patch for this at the weekend if nobody else is.

[callumacrae]

I think we should definitely expand it as I ran into it recently on area51. Maybe to 2x the current size.

+1. Its way too easy to run into it at the moment. Its 64 characters.

I'll take a look at a patch for this at the weekend if nobody else is.

Time to learn how the database updater thing works

[ecwpa]

I think we should definitely expand it as I ran into it recently on area51. Maybe to 2x the current size.

That'll be more than enough for me, thanks!

[imkingdavid]

For whomever is going to do this, some additional info: The "topic_title" column in the phpbb_topics table is a VARCHAR(255). So the limit is in the software, meaning that you'll need to look, likely, in posting.php or functions_posting.php to find where it is limiting the length.

Also, the post_title length should be updated accordingly.

[Jacob]

Info:

• Length: http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... #p13029293
  Changes in functions_content.php, posting_editor.html and quickreply_editor.html also.
• ACP: http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... &t=2111996

Sorry, I still don't know how to use git. I'll try to learn.

Edit:

Also, the post_title length should be updated accordingly.

I think it's the same function (truncate_string).

[MichaelC]

I don't think we need an ACP setting for this but thanks for both links.

Do we want to go to 120/124 or 100/104 or 200/204 (second number is for if its a reply it needs to have topic title length plus 4 characters. Having them the same would chop of a 100 char topic title by 4 chars in all replies. - Re: (Space) TOPICSUBJECT.

I'll put up a PR tonight with 120 for now.

[MichaelC]

PR: https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb3/pull/571
Ticket: http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-10640