Increase ammount of text sig size ?

Client Joined: Dec 04, 2004 Posts: 757

Hi all, when entering your account / your profile etc I was wondering if its important to increase the text limit for a sig over the default of 255 etc???
Thanks for any help
mrix

registered · Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:26 am

That would really depend on if you want users to have large sigs or not. Personally, I like the 255 limit. If it gets too high you will have a sigs that take up half a page. JMO

Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:31 am

The problem is I got a sig that needs just a little more text to get it to run.
Cheers
mrix

Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:35 am

The table field wouldn't allow more than 255 characters so you would need to change that as well.

Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:48 am

So is it just a case of editing a file and changing a value in a table ?
All more trouble than its worth?
Cheers and thanks
mrix

Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:52 am

Quote:

I like the 255 limit. If it gets too high you will have a sigs that take up half a page

Surely the size of the image has nothing to do with the actual characters Confused

I can add a small ammount of text that would make a huge image etc.
The reason I would like the characters increasing is because I have 2 images with 2 links and thats enough to take it over the 255 character limit Sad

Cheers
mrix

Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:21 am

I thought you could adjust the length of the sig in the forums admin to be as many characters as you wanted?

Quote:

Surely the size of the image has nothing to do with the actual characters

True, I was thinking more of users that like to show 4 or 5 different banners in their sigs.... I have just always found 255 plenty.

registered · Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:20 am

nuken,
For the integrated forums, the user sig is stored on the users table not in the bb tables. The field on the nuke_users table is varchar(255) which means up to a maximum of 255 characters.

mrix,
Yes, you would have to alter the table column size as well as find the RNYA code to change to where it will allow more than 255 characters. Look carefully too to make sure there isn't a string function chopping the return value before it is saved (can't recall if there was one).