Text area extra field only saved partially

[ric373]

Current behavior / Resultado actual / Résultat actuel

When inserting multiple sentences (500+ characters) into an extra field (type: text area) only part of it is saved.

Expected behavior / Resultado esperado / Résultat attendu

The whole text is saved.

Steps to reproduce / Pasos para reproducir / Étapes pour reproduire

Create an extra field (type: text area). Create or edit a course and type multiple sentences into the extra field and save the form.

Chamilo Version / Versión de Chamilo / Version de Chamilo

1.11.2

[jmontoyaa]

This will require a database change currently the field ('value') allows max 255 characters

mysql> describe extra_field_values;
+------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field      | Type         | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
+------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| id         | int(11)      | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
| value      | varchar(255) | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
| field_id   | int(11)      | YES  | MUL | NULL    |                |
| item_id    | int(11)      | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| comment    | longtext     | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
| created_at | datetime     | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| updated_at | datetime     | NO   |     | NULL    |                |

Maybe it will be a good idea to change it to "text" in next version .... @ywarnier ?

[ywarnier]

Yes, no problem to increase it to text from my perspective. It will weight a little on efficiency, but I understand that extra fields can be used more from now on... and they are not particularly efficiency-focused for now (if you want efficiency, then it should be added to core).

[NicoDucou]

This problems occurs for various plateform and as Yannick indicated the extrafields are not on efficiency based so we should change value from varchar(255) to text.
Julio can you change it for 2.0

[ywarnier]

Looks good to me, although I didn't test it (impossible at the moment). Requires a bit of testing and then we can close.