[Forum] How to fix displayed frorum title length ?

[helal_ph]

1- In My forums , the forum title is not shown complete:
Najran and Mid
Supposed to be like that:
Najran and Middle Area

How can i fix the setting of this

2- Second Question :
In the forums list display page , the categories are shown and the forums in each category, but sub forums are not shown below the forums

How can I make sub forms titles be displayed ?

Thanks

[Lynne]

1 - Do you mean it is cutoff in the display in the forums, or you can't set it in your Forum Manager?

2 - vboptions > forum listing display options > depth of sub-forums

[helal_ph]

[QUOTE=Lynne;2052091]1 - Do you mean it is cutoff in the display in the forums, or you can't set it in your Forum Manager?
= It is cutoff in the display of the forums, and also in forum manager


2 - vboptions > forum listing display options > depth of sub-forums
=I did like that forum listing display options > depth of sub-forums = 4
But still sub forums are not showing

[helal_ph]

[QUOTE=Lynne;2052091]1 - Do you mean it is cutoff in the display in the forums, or you can't set it in your Forum Manager?
= It is cutoff in the display of the forums,
and also in forum manager , looks like that:
نجران والمنطقة ا
While it should be like this:
نجران والمنطقة الغربيــــــــــــة


2 - vboptions > forum listing display options > depth of sub-forums
=I did like that forum listing display options > depth of sub-forums = 4
But still sub forums are not showing

[Trevor Hannant]

1. To troubleshoot this, first reupload all the original vB non-image files (except install.php). Make sure you upload these in ASCII format and overwrite the ones on the server. Also be sure to upload the admincp files to whichever directory you have set in your config.php file. Then run 'Suspect File Versions' in Diagnostics to make sure you have all the original files for your version and that none show 'File does not contain expected contents':

Admin CP -> Maintenance -> Diagnostics -> Suspect File Versions

[Note: In some cases you may also need to remove any of the listed .xml files in the includes/xml directory.]

Next, disable all plugins.

Note: To temporarily disable the plugin system, edit config.php and add this line right under <?php

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);

Then if you still have this problem, create a new style and choose no parent style. This will force it to use the default templates. Finally empty your browser cache, close all browser windows then try again. Make sure you change to the new style and view your forums with it.

Do you have the same problem?


2. By default, vB only allows a forum depth of 2 to be dispayed (this includes categories.) To change this:

1. Admin CP -> Options -> vBulletin Options -> Forum Listings Display Options -> Depth of Forums -> Forum Home -> 3

2. Manually create new templates to increase the forums displayed. You have to add template forumhome_forumbit_levelx_post and template forumhome_forumbit_levelx_nopost for each level past 2, replacing the x with the level number. For instance:

forumhome_forumbit_level3_nopost
forumhome_forumbit_level3_post
etc.

Copy the contents of the other templates ('1' or '2') into these new templates. Then change the 'Depth of Forums' setting in the Admin CP to the appropriate number.

Repeat as necessary for whatever depth you want.

[Lynne]

The forum.title length in the database is 100 characters. I am guessing you are going over that. You may want to edit the database and increase the length of that field (and forum.title_clean at the same time).

[helal_ph]

Copy the contents of the other templates ('1' or '2') into these new templates. Then change the 'Depth of Forums' setting in the Admin CP to the appropriate number.

Copy the contents = do you mean to copy both the contents of ('1' or '2') into the new one . Please explain more , or give the exact content to be posted into the new template

[helal_ph]

Displayed forum title length in forums (forum.php - forumdisplay.php)

In My forums , the forum title is not shown complete as I entered it:
in (forum.php - forumdisplay.php - and forum manager)
This happened when I used Arabic Language, but not with English
I tried to fix the problem as I advised , but it was not fixed

Supposed to be like that:
Najran and Middle Area in Saudi
in Arabic like that:
نجران والمنطقة الجنوبية من السعودية
But displayed like that only in Arabic:
نجران والمنطقة

I was advised to do the following by Trevor Hannant
"
To troubleshoot this, first reupload all the original vB non-image files (except install.php). Make sure you upload these in ASCII format and overwrite the ones on the server. Also be sure to upload the admincp files to whichever directory you have set in your config.php file. Then run 'Suspect File Versions' in Diagnostics to make sure you have all the original files for your version and that none show 'File does not contain expected contents':
Admin CP -> Maintenance -> Diagnostics -> Suspect File Versions
[Note: In some cases you may also need to remove any of the listed .xml files in the includes/xml directory.]
Next, disable all plugins.
Note: To temporarily disable the plugin system, edit config.php and add this line right under <?php
define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);
Then if you still have this problem, create a new style and choose no parent style. This will force it to use the default templates. Finally empty your browser cache, close all browser windows then try again. Make sure you change to the new style and view your forums with it.
"
But it did not work

[Steve Machol]

Try increasing this setting to 4 times what it is now:

Admin CP -> Settings -> Options -> Message Posting and Editing Options -> Maximum Characters Per Thread/Post Title

[helal_ph]

Tnx

I did increase from 85 to 400

But it did not work

[Steve Machol]

Do you have the same problem if you use English characters?

[Trevor Hannant]

Merged threads...

[Trevor Hannant]

Resolved via support ticket:

Hello.

I've made the changes to your database suggested by Lynne in post 6 above

This has allowed me to create a forum and for the title to display fully. When you're creating a forum in the Arabic language, the characters are being converted to their HTML entities resulting in some characters actually being 6 characters long, for example:

Forum 1:

In Forums - أسواق أقليمية
In Database -أسواق أقليمية

By increasing the field lengths to 500, this allows these to be saved OK.