signiture size increase

[Bilko]

I want a longer signiture like this

The Great Tommy Cooper

"So he said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.' I thought 'That's a turn-up for the books.'"

but only got space for 255 characters any way of increasing the limit ?? please

[Conri]

what i think is dumb, is a character limit, yet the banner (etc) can be HUGE at the end of your signature

[Bilko]

Here here c'mon lads keep the pressure up soon we will be able to have sigs so HUGE that they will need a server of there own

muhahahahaha

[Firejack]

I believe the reason for the limit is you have 256-1 slots available on a 8-byte field in a 32-bit database - like MySQL is. If you increase the amount of characters you need 2 slots of 8-byte*32-bit to fit in the information. So I belive the limit is there just to make the database more efficient. Of course I could be totally wrong. I'll wait for Dismus, Allicorn or some other programmer to correct me.

Anyway.. I've changed the limit to 510.

[allicorn]

The field type for user signatures is what MySQL calls just "text", which can hold up to 65534 characters, so there's no meaningful database-specific limit to the length of the sig. The limit has to be an additional restriction enforced by PHPBB - and since FJ has just upped it, it must be configurable

Alli

[Bilko]

perfect cheers