Hi all, I am using drupal on a multi-language site, which supports english and malayalam. The language malayalam is a multibyte language. So the default settings for limiting the length of a subject line is too short for languages other than english. My question is; How can I change the length of comment subject line? Is it a good practice? What is the effect of this when i want to do an upgrade.
I am running drupal 4.5.1.
thanks, Paul
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Paul wrote:
I am using drupal on a multi-language site, which supports english and malayalam. The language malayalam is a multibyte language.
Could you provide your translation of Drupal to Mayalam to the Drupal community?
So the default settings for limiting the length of a subject line is too short for languages other than english. My question is;
The field length of the commet subject field is 64 chars atm. That would make 32 chars for a double-byte langauge which is indeed shart.
How can I change the length of comment subject line?
The length of th esubject line is defined in the comment table:
subject varchar(64) NOT NULL default '',
You can use phpmyqdmin or the mysql commandline to change this to something higher. Maximum is 255.
You will maybe also need to increase the number of chars you can put into the forms. Look for form_textfield in comment.module.
Is it a good practice? What is the effect of this when i want to do an upgrade.
The database should be unaffected, you probably need to make the changes to the form fields again.
I am running drupal 4.5.1.
You should upgrade to 4.5.3.
Cheers, Gerhard
Dear Gerhard, thanks for the reply. Actually i am using the english language interface, even though the site is multi-language. But will try to create a drupal translation and give it to drupal community...
thanks, Paul
Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Paul wrote:
I am using drupal on a multi-language site, which supports english and> malayalam. The language malayalam is a multibyte language.
Could you provide your translation of Drupal to Mayalam to the Drupalcommunity?
So the> default settings for limiting the length of a subject line is too short> for languages other than english. My question is;
The field length of the commet subject field is 64 chars atm. That wouldmake 32 chars for a double-byte langauge which is indeed shart.
How can I change the length of comment subject line?
The length of th esubject line is defined in the comment table: subject varchar(64) NOT NULL default '', You can use phpmyqdmin or the mysql commandline to change this tosomething higher. Maximum is 255. You will maybe also need to increase the number of chars you can putinto the forms. Look for form_textfield in comment.module.
Is it a good> practice? What is the effect of this when i want to do an upgrade.
The database should be unaffected, you probably need to make the changesto the form fields again.
I am running drupal 4.5.1.
You should upgrade to 4.5.3. Cheers, Gerhard -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
Paul
Op vrijdag 17 juni 2005 05:50, schreef Gerhard Killesreiter:
The length of th esubject line is defined in the comment table:
subject varchar(64) NOT NULL default '',
You can use phpmyqdmin or the mysql commandline to change this to something higher. Maximum is 255.
You will maybe also need to increase the number of chars you can put into the forms. Look for form_textfield in comment.module.
Its not really a bg, but I think it would be good that after you fixed this, you post your solution into the drupal bug database. If you have problems with it, other will too, so we shuold just fix this in a new release.
Regards, Bèr
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