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Character limit in author homepage field
« Thread Started on May 4, 2009, 2:19pm »

There's a 30 character limit in the homepage field when editing authors. This bug appeared a few version releases ago, not sure exactly when.

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Re: Character limit in author homepage field
« Reply #1 on May 11, 2009, 5:00pm »

Good catch. It was probably a copy and paste error on my part when I tried to put some limits on the field lengths.

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Re: Character limit in author homepage field
« Reply #2 on Aug 11, 2009, 8:54am »

This is a pretty easy fix. Just make the following two changes in the gm.cgi file ...

On line 963, change ...

maxlength="30" name="newauthorhomepage"
... to ...
maxlength="300" name="newauthorhomepage"

On line 1229, change ...

maxlength="30" name="editedhomepage"
... to ...
maxlength="300" name="editedhomepage"

I opted for a 300 character limit, but you can change this to whatever you want.

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Re: Character limit in author homepage field
« Reply #3 on Aug 12, 2009, 11:09pm »

Scott,

Good find.

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