Easy easy question (Field type)

[wonderboy]

Hi,

I have built a little MySQL / PHP forum, and was wandering how to incresae the storage of the main message from 255 characters to a lot more, which field type am I after?

Everything works fine, except for this!

Cheers,

W.

[carneddau]

Hi,

You need to use one of TEXT/MEDIUMTEXT/LONGTEXT data type as opposed to VARCHAR.

Cheers

[wonderboy]

thank you please, I have to learn these field types =)

[coopster]

This should help...
Column Types [dev.mysql.com]

[jatar_k]

so should this ALTER TABLE [dev.mysql.com]