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 Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:33 pm Post subject: Allowing a longer subject line in forum list? |
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When viewing the page that shows all forums is there a way to allow a longer subject line to appear for the "last post info" column?
I have figured out how to make the columns (topics, replies etc.) wider but doing so does not make the subject line provide more of the title.
Thanks! 
UPDATE: No real "update" here since no one ever replied!  I normally despise bumping up very old threads since one reads all the way thru it to then notice it was an old one. But, in this case, there is not much to read thru! Anyone able to help me here?
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| Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Any ideas on this? Thanks! |
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confusedabit
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| Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:05 am Post subject: |
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A year later, I ask this same question! I tried this again this evening and after spending a crazy amount of test via trial and error I still do nto know how to do this. Nor, has anyone helped.
This can't be that hard to do! I find that tweaking something is so complex with whatever this language is called. I find myself spending so much time trying to get something fixed with little results. Why is that? You have to practically guess and de-cipher what all of the HTML means. All of the {} /lang.cat. and so on.
I am just FRUSTRATED that being an admin needs so much understanding. Again, whatever this is all called, IPB, Invision whatever--it is just NOT user friendly. 
So, now that I vented...can someone PLEASE help me to enlarge the subject line displayed for topics??? |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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confused,
I have not looked at the code for the section you are talking about, but I imagine you are limited to the amount of characters returned by the database query.
As far as the complexity of IPB, you are correct it is much less user friendly than phpbb. However that is about as user friendly as it gets if you want the flexibility to be able to edit the look of a forum and the other things IPB offers that others don't.
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confusedabit
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| Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 3:54 am Post subject: |
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| admin wrote: | confused,
...I imagine you are limited to the amount of characters returned by the database query.
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Admin, what exactly does that mean?! How would I change this "databse query?
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confusedabit
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| Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:09 am Post subject: |
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| Can you tell me where exactly this section is? It would be a big help if I knew I was at least in the right spot-thanks! |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:31 am Post subject: |
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Can anyone else lend me a hand with this issue? I re-visit it many times and just can not figure out HOW or even WHERE I can tweak the subject line to be longer. I really do not understand the earlier reply from our admin. So, if someone else can expand on this I would be most appreciative!!
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It means if the database only returns say the first 50 characters changing the length to allow more will not help it will still only return 50 characters.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks admin!
Is this data return from the database anything that I can change myself? And, can you tell me where the section of code is located? Then I can do my usual trial and error.
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No it is not. At that point your getting into programmer land.
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