Allowing longer shouts

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Had the same problem but in Drupal 6.x and found out, that you have to add something to the file:
sites/all/modules/shoutbox/shoutbox.module

Find the following code in shoutbox.module:

$form['message'] = array(
    '#type' => 'textfield',
    '#default_value' => $default_msg,
    '#size' => 15,
  );
 

And change it to this code:

 $form['message'] = array(
    '#type' => 'textfield',
    '#default_value' => $default_msg,
    '#size' => 15,
    '#maxlength' => 1000,
  );

Where 1000 is the amount of characters permitted.

Get on version 2.0. Admin's can set the maxlength.

And konse, that won't work because the database field also has a maxlength.

The 2.0 version lets you change the maxlength via the admin interface, but right now, it can only go as high as 255.

Think it should be higher?

Yeah really should be higher - The lenght of messages should be 500. I use shoutbox on a hockey site. And whould love to let people debate in long sentences

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I'll have this done on the next commit

I really think you should let admins set this number to whatever they want... maybe make it default to a 255 or 500 limit but some people might want 1000 or 1500 characters for a specific implementation. I did a site where the shoutbox was styled to be full width and was used for the day's announcements for an organization. These could sometimes be quite lengthy.

well the problem is that it's stored in a database field, and you have to declare a size of that field - varchar(255), etc. i could change the field to a long blob of text so there really isn't a limit. do we think that's the best way to go?

i'm not sure if that will cause data loss from changing the field type on active sites.

Committed: http://drupal.org/cvs?commit=404630

No limit on shouts now. Admin can still set a limit, but it can be anything.

Awesome, you win! =)

haha thanks..

keep the feature requests coming - even though i've overloaded myself with them.

I'm actually aiming to release a 2.2 soon. I extended and organized the API by a ton - which will make shoutbox additions much much easier. I also noticed a ton of coding, themeing, and especially, javascript issues left behind from 1.x that needed to be fixed. This is really shaping up to be an awesome module. Stay tuned!

i have shout box on a test site and the problem i run into is that the text runs off the screen, that is if i use too long of text it doesn't wrap the text, is there anything that i can do to get the text to wrap?