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I am trying to integrated the site I am developing with a third party site that will both use the url spit out by EE2. However I am noticing that the {url_title} is being limited to 75 characters. Since I need to be able to have my editors easily tell what the url title will be I can’t have this limitation in order for this to work?

Does anyone know where this is set?

Thanks!

Hi Luke,

The length of the url_title is not determined by a setting within the CP, it is fixed within the code. I would not recommend (and we could not support) hacking the core. However, if you wish to pursue that then I think you would want to look at the system/expressionengine/libraries/Api.php file on or around line 179.

Cheers

Greg

Take a look at this extension - CE Longer Titles as I believe it may help out here.

I’m fairly certain there’s another one that does this same sort of thing too and perhaps to even more places in the system but I can’t remember the name of that one at the moment. If I do remember the name then I’ll post back here with it as soon as I remember.

Best wishes,

Mark

And no sooner than I post that it comes to my noggin’ 😉

Kyara

I knew I’d remember it but didn’t think it would be that fast!! 😊 That said I don’t think this one works on the url_title. I might be mistaken though.

Best wishes,

Mark

Thanks so much! Lifesaver!

Thanks so much! Lifesaver!

No problem at all. Glad that helped a bit.

Best wishes,

Mark

Unfortunately CE Longer Titles doesn’t work as the creator had planned it can adjust the limit of the title but not the url. :(

And Kyara does not limit the url characters either.

I think it would be wise if EE would at least make the limits for the Title and the Url title the same?

Thoughts?

I just tried out CE Longer Titles and it worked fine for me on the url_title. I increased to 100 in my test and it allowed me to place more characters in there. In fact I just tested 1000 characters and it worked too.

In what way didn’t it work for you?

Best wishes,

Mark

I just tried out CE Longer Titles and it worked fine for me on the url_title. I increased to 100 in my test and it allowed me to place more characters in there. In fact I just tested 1000 characters and it worked too.

In what way didn’t it work for you?

Best wishes,

That is odd. I am running v2.1.3 is that what you are running as well?  I will try it again.

Thanks for your input!

Ah sorry yep guess I should have mentioned I’m using 2.1.4 although I could swear I’d tried this out on 2.1.3 as well. Perhaps my memory is mistaken on that though.

Best wishes,

Mark

I will try to upgrade to 2.1.4 and see what happens.

I will try to upgrade to 2.1.4 and see what happens.

Okay. Do be careful that 2.1.4 is still in beta so if this is a production site you’re working on? you might want to hold off until 2.1.4 is out of beta. Saying that 2.1.4 does feel a lot more stable to me.

Best wishes,

Mark

thanks for the heads up… I will most likely sideline the url_title project until i can test in a full release 2.1.4

Thanks much!

Hi Luke,

Okay. I’ll go ahead and close this thread now but please post back if you have further questions or problems.

Cheers

Greg

@Mark, thanks for your help.