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How to increase 250 character limit for Title field for Custom Fields?

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7 years 6 months ago #123482 by Dave
Hello, I use descriptive text, img tags, and basic html inline styling for a few of my Titles for Custom Fields.

I need more than 250 characters for a few of these Titles.

I changed maxlength from 250 to 400 in this file:

root/administrator/components/com_jdonation/view/field/tmpl/default.php

and also in

root/administrator/components/com_jdonation/view/plugin/tmpl/default.php,

but these changes did not have any effect.

How can I change the maxlength character limit for Title fields from 250 to 400?

Thanks.

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7 years 6 months ago #123484 by Mr. Dam
Hi,
In database of Joom Donation -> Table #__jd_fields, field: Title has attribute is Varchar 255 already
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7 years 6 months ago #123486 by Dave
Hey, thanks!

For other readers: open this table in phpMyAdmin, then use the Structure tab to access the varchar setting for this Title element.

Question:
Is the database varchar change the only required change, or is it also necessary to change the limits in the php files I linked above?

Thx.

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7 years 6 months ago #123489 by Mr. Dam
Hi Dave,
You don't need to change anything in the PHP file
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7 years 6 months ago #123493 by Dave

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