There is a 40 character limit on the url length ( inc/items/model/_item.funcs.php approx 132 )

	// Normalize to 40 chars + a number
	preg_match( '/^(.*?)((-|_)+([0-9]+))?$/', $urltitle, $matches );
	$urlbase = substr( $matches[1], 0, 40 );
	$urltitle = $urlbase;
	if( ! empty( $matches[4] ) )
	{
		$urltitle = $urlbase.'-'.$matches[4];
	}

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note to self : add strip tags to auto generated urls

¥åßßå wrote:

There is a 40 character limit on the url length ( inc/items/model/_item.funcs.php approx 132 )

	// Normalize to 40 chars + a number
	preg_match( '/^(.*?)((-|_)+([0-9]+))?$/', $urltitle, $matches );
	$urlbase = substr( $matches[1], 0, 40 );
	$urltitle = $urlbase;
	if( ! empty( $matches[4] ) )
	{
		$urltitle = $urlbase.'-'.$matches[4];
	}

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note to self : add strip tags to auto generated urls

Thanks, ¥åßßå. Would I be correct in assuming that changing the 40 in the urlbase line would change this limit? As I mentioned in another post, I know just enough php to be dangerous. ;)

The highest you can go ( without changing the database column ) is 50, however, you either need to ensure that your urls are unique or keep them to 48 characters so that evo has room to add numbers if required to make them unique ;)

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¥åßßå wrote:

The highest you can go ( without changing the database column ) is 50, however, you either need to ensure that your urls are unique or keep them to 48 characters so that evo has room to add numbers if required to make them unique ;)

Thanks for the additional info and warning. I'll probably go ahead and bump the number up to 50. (The post title that originally caused this problem would've exceeded this number anyway.) I'm certainly not about to go messing with the database tables. I want to learn php/sql, but not by wrecking my blog. ;)

To refresh my memory, the table to alter the number in is "Table: evo_items__item post_url", correct?

probably :p

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I suppose changing the character limit will break old links?

nomad wrote:

I suppose changing the character limit will break old links?

I don't think it does.

nomad wrote:

I suppose changing the character limit will break old links?

It shouldn't/doesn't.

ah ok, i see. i thought it would change old links (makes them longer), but it doesn't