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rbassett
rbassett

Reputation: 391

Permanently change field size in Joomla database

I want to increase the size of a field in the joomla database (table jos_menu, field link). Any idea what will happen to it when a new version of Joomla comes out and I do a Joomla upgrade? Will the field gets resized on upgrade, hence losing some of my stored data? How do I prevent this?

Thanks in advance.

(Joomla 2.5.x)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 70

Answers (1)

Lodder
Lodder

Reputation: 19733

Your tables should be fine with minor updates however you never know if Joomla will require changes to the #__menu table in the future. Lots of changes were made to the database structure in Joomla 1.6 so what's to say it won't happen in Joomla 4.0 (when released). I would say you should be ok when changing the size of the field but every time you update Joomla, just double check that none of the changes have been reverted.

Upvotes: 1

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