Allowing longer posts in PHPBB

How to increase the length of postings

[zgb999]

There seems to be a limit in PHPBB and longer posts are not allowed. Anybody knows where to increase this limit?

[futuresky]

I'm talking with only partly checking but I think it's a limit of the database "text" column-type maximum length. Check out mysql column types (if you're using mysql). I think the next step upwards would be changing the column type of the posts_text.post_text column to some kind of blob. Not sure how advisable this is though (ie whether it would cause slowness).

[jatar_k]

how big are you thinking zgb999?

[zgb999]

Thank you so much for your help!

I was thinking a limit of maybe 7500 caracters would be enough. Right now the limit is lower.

[jatar_k]

well the column for storing the post_text is a TEXT field and allows up to 65,535 (216 – 1) characters so it isn't limited to the database.

I don't see a setting in the admin configuration for post size.

It may be in code somewhere, not really sure.