How to increase characters accepted in the submission blanks

[multig]

I have tried increasing the maxlenght at the script of the join_form.Tpl file:

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<input name="url" type="text" size="50" maxlength="75" value="http://">
</td></tr><tr><td>
<#lng{'g_title'}>
</td><td>
<input name="title" type="text" size="50" maxlength="32">
</td></tr><tr><td>
<#lng{'g_description'}>
</td><td>
<input name="description" type="text" size="50" maxlength="255">
</td></tr><tr><td>
<#lng{'g_email'}>
</td><td>
<input name="email" type="text" size="50" maxlength="70">
</td></tr><tr><td>
<#lng{'g_password'}>
</td><td>
<input name="password" type="password" size="50" maxlength="32">

but without results……There is another change to do in this and/or other file script?

Thanks.

[multig]

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[OS-Mark]

you will need to edit the database structure for this.

using a tool like phpmyadmin, alter the "description" field on the "ats_sites" table from varchar(255) to text(999)

[multig]

Thanks OS-Mark,

I found what you said at the "asb_members" table (there is no "ats_sites" table, may be due the topsites version 4.2.2).

I just increase the length/values but keeping the same "varchar" without changing it to "text"..........and it worked too.

So, which is the reason to change from "varchar" to "text"?

And other question: What the camp "jointime" is for?

[OS-Mark]

in older MySQL version varchar was limited to 255, so switching to text would work for those using old versions.

jointime is the time the user joined...

PS. for security reasons, you really should update to the latest version of aardvark topsites as soon as possible. Its also a far superior product than the old 4.x series..

[multig]

Yes, one of these days I'll upgrade to the latest one in that moment.

I'm not clear about "jointime"....It is the limited time that a new member can waste while joining?......And it is in seconds or in minutes?

In my case it is setted INT 10........if it is 10 seconds it looks like too low.

[OS-Mark]

jointime would be the date/time the member joined, there is no other logical use for this. I have no idea what format that old version used but I would suspect its unix timestamp

[multig]

Thanks so much OS-Mark.

I've surfed around your sites and find them quite interesting.