minimum characters on submit page

[davebowker]

hey all,

having a little problem. whenever i submit a story under pligg submit, i type in a title, a description and a short description, as well as optionally tagging the story.

the issue im having is you cannot submit a story unless the title and description is above a certain character limit.

what i would like to know is can you decrease the title character limit so my title could be a 2 character title, ie 'ME'

also...

can i extend the limit of characters on the short description from its default value (126 i think) to say 256 characters.

also...

can i limit the number of characters on full description as i really dont want someone writing an essay everytime they submit a story. i think double the short description value will be fine.

thankyou for any help in advance. im sure its just a matter of opening up a php file and changing a number but i dont know where to look.

Thanks

[kbeeveer46]

1. In libs/options.php is where you can edit the minimum length for titles and other things.

2. If you are familiar with phpMyAdmin you can go into the links table and where you see link_summary, edit that to be text and not varchar. this will allow you to increase the limit to something higher than 255. We have fixed this for future builds here http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pl...v&revision=179

3. I'm not sure off the top of my head the best way to limit the full description. There might be a way to limit the number of characters a textarea can use by editing the form in submit_step_2.tpl

[myisland]

Sir, which program are you referring to, I do not have an options.php under my libs folder.

My Pligg program will display the story summary but will not open the actual full story published when you select read more.

Any help ideas?

Thanks

[chuckroast]

Originally Posted by myisland

Sir, which program are you referring to, I do not have an options.php under my libs folder.

My Pligg program will display the story summary but will not open the actual full story published when you select read more.

Any help ideas?

Thanks

Hi myisland

in story.php.

Change line 128 from
$main_smarty->assign('the_story', $link->print_summary('summary', true));
to
$main_smarty->assign('the_story', $link->print_summary('full', true));