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Noah Stokes on Custom Field Max Length

Last week EE Insider contributor Noah Stokes ran into an issue with custom input fields in EE not allowing him to enter anything at all.

With the help of a friend (*cough* me *cough*) he remembered that he had blanked out the max length when he created those fields (no value at all) and apparently EE just makes the value 0 (instead of a usable default like 128).

Read his short write-up on it at Es Bueno: ExpressionEngine Custom Field Gotcha

(You might also be interested in Noah’s EE Insider article A Primer on Relationships in ExpressionEngine)

Posted on Nov 11, 2010 by Ryan Irelan

Filed Under: EE Add-ons, EE Fieldtypes, ExpressionEngine 2