limitation of custom fields

thoresson · 2006-01-24 18:59:03

Can the custom fields hold

a) XHTML/CSS-code?
b) Be more than 2000 characters long?

/Anders

zem · 2006-01-24 22:15:30

The custom fields are defined as varchar(255). You can modify the table to make them ‘text’. Textpattern doesn’t care what’s they contain.

thoresson · 2006-01-25 07:15:30

What happens when I upgrade? Does upgrades touch the structure of the database?

/Anders

edeverett · 2006-07-22 09:45:35

Bump!

What happens when I upgrade? Does upgrades touch the structure of the database?

I’d like to know this too. I have a project where I need to have a feild seperate from either the Article or Excerpt that doesn’t have the limitations of varchar(255). I can go into the db and just change the settings, but I’d too like to know what the impact of these changes would be (particularly with regards to upgrades).

Would it be theoretically possible to have an admin side plugin that allows users to set the content type of the custom fields?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Cheers,

Ed.

marios · 2006-07-22 09:54:10

Is it enough to modify the table in phpmyadmin or do I need to modify the codebase as well ?

regards, marios

Ace of Dubs · 2006-07-22 11:32:07

+1 one more poster who is interested in this idea.

(And marios, this might potentially be a solution to your problem with splitting articles like we talked about)

marios · 2006-07-23 01:16:33

Ace of Dubs wrote:

+1 one more poster who is interested in this idea.

(And marios, this might potentially be a solution to your problem with splitting articles like we talked about)

I just hope there would be an answer to these questions, despite that fact, that there are frogs inside the thread.

regards, marios

masa · 2006-07-23 08:33:44

marios wrote:

Is it enough to modify the table in phpmyadmin or do I need to modify the codebase as well ?

previously zem stated:

Textpattern doesn’t care what’s they contain.

That seems to suggest you’d only need to change the table but not TXP.

Cheers Martin

Ace of Dubs · 2006-07-23 11:53:10

Looking at the tables I dont see any that say “custom field”

Where would I find it?

edeverett · 2006-07-23 11:57:29

Custom fields are fields in the textpattern table.

Last edited by edeverett (2006-07-23 11:58:44)

Mary · 2006-07-23 11:59:10

The “textpattern” table.

Ace of Dubs · 2006-07-23 12:41:58

Thanks for the helpful nudge in the right direction yall. I got it working now

@ Marios,

This is indeed the solution you were looking for. I created a new custom field named “Info” and set it to “Text” within PHPAdmin. I now essentially have 2 excerpt fields!

The only rub is that you have to hack the admin a little bit to place the field where you want it and also change the size of it. I will post the modifications in your thread.

Last edited by Ace of Dubs (2006-07-23 12:42:42)

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