Products Description: Max Letters Allowed

[BostonMotorsports.com]

Hello,

 

I am new to OSCommerce, I just purchased a template from monstertemplate.com, and installed everything. However when I add my product, and write atleast 200 letters worth of description, and add some html codes, such as <ul><li> to add bullets for the features and what not, it comes up fine when i click on preview, but after posting and then when i refresh my page, to see it live, the discroption gets cut off, and only part of it shows.... I read a few threads about editing the producuts_description in my phpmyadmin section, but I can't seem to really figure out on how to edit what needs to be edited inside the phpmyadmin, little confused on where the edit options are for that file, is there a easier way to do this, I tried everything, and I am at the point of pulling out whatever hair i have left on my head.

 

If anyone can help explain on why this is happening and a way to fix this issue, that would be greatly appreciated, thank you,

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Daniel

[BostonMotorsports.com]

Can anyone please help me??

[germ]

Can anyone please help me??

Template Monster Support

[jhande]

Hey Daniel,

 

BACK UP YOUR DATABASE 1ST BEFORE EDITING!!!

 

In phpMyAdmin select your database, then in the left column click on the products_description table.

 

In the right window look at the products_description Field, the "Type" should = text.

 

If it is something other than text [such as varchar(#) or longtext], click on the pencil icon [Change] to the right in that row. Then select TEXT in the Type column, click save.

 

Let us know how you made out.

 

Jim - a.k.a. Germ is correct.

You should really seek help from your template's support. It could be designed differently and any edits we/I suggested could break something.

[BostonMotorsports.com]

Hey Daniel,

 

BACK UP YOUR DATABASE 1ST BEFORE EDITING!!!

 

In phpMyAdmin select your database, then in the left column click on the products_description table.

 

In the right window look at the products_description Field, the "Type" should = text.

 

If it is something other than text [such as varchar(#) or longtext], click on the pencil icon [Change] to the right in that row. Then select TEXT in the Type column, click save.

 

Let us know how you made out.

 

Jim - a.k.a. Germ is correct.

You should really seek help from your template's support. It could be designed differently and any edits we/I suggested could break something.

 

 

I checked and everything looks good just the way you say it should be Jim.

 

Dunno, what else it could be.

[jhande]

Hey Daniel,

 

I'm no pro at databases but if the type is set to "text" then I don't think it would be a database limitation.

 

I'm pretty sure the only limitations for the length would be when using varchar(#) - the # being how many characters are allowed.

When the type is set to text, you have a limit of 65,535 bytes (64KB) which I'm sure your product description doesn't max out.

 

I would try contacting Template Monster and see if there's a limitation set somehow in the PHP page (whether for inserting or displaying).