The Word (Character) Limit of every single content page

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Re: The Word (Character) Limit of every single content page

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Re: The Word (Character) Limit of every single content page

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Also if you don't want to mess around with the database structure, you could add additional content blocks into your template. Each block will be restricted to 64K (as per Jos), but you can combine 2 or more content blocks to get more content into your page. Content blocks can be inserted using the "block=" parameter for the {content} tag.

On a related note, if you need to have that much content on a page, there seems to be scope for sub-pages and/or a navigation system where the content can be broken into logical and more manageable chunks. This will bring the per-page content requirements down and also a nicer user experience than having to scroll many times to read a long page. Just a thought. Of course this is a very generic UX suggestion - I know I don't understand the specifics of your situation.

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Re: The Word (Character) Limit of every single content page

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You can also use the smarty {fetch} command to bring extra content in from static files. I use this when including complex image maps, as they take up more than one database "cell".
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