How to increase weblink description length Topic is solved

[Heaven-cx]

I came across the Web_Link component of Joomla and experienced some problems. My link descriptions were always cut off after a certain length. If you wish to increase the length of the web_link component (a core component of Joomla) here is what you do


Go to the joomla database and enter the following SQL command: (usually you can access the database through PhPMyAdmin)

Code: Select all

ALTER TABLE JOS_WEBLINKS MODIFY DESCRIPTION MEDIUMTEXT

The default field type was varchar (250) so it had a restriction of 250 characters.


Your table name might not be JOS_WEBLINKS depending on how you set up the prefixes.



Also this is only used on Joomla 1.013, I can not guarantee it will work on other versions.



Cheers!