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Not so much as a problem - just a query to check I’m not going to run into one in future.

We’re setting up an events calendar for a client, and there will be several events happening repeatedly through the year. For various reasons we still want new entries for each event - but it’s likely that the Entry title is going to get reused each time.

From what I can see the url title automatically adds a number to the title, so doesn’t cause any problems. What I want to check though - is there any sort of limit to this ... ie: if they ended up with 50+ entries with the same Title, does a point come when EE is going to complain?

Thanks

There is a limit - offhand I can’t remember what it is. Seems like either 50 or 99…

Ahhh - thanks.
Do you know what happens when that limit is reached?

If you get an error saying you can’t use that post title, pick another - that’s fine. If it accepts the new entry but then starts giving DB errors - it might be more of an issue.

Thanks

Haven’t seen it for sure, but would hope it’s a CP-based error.

Mekonta,

I haven’t been able to find any documentation on a limit to re-using the same title. Just to be sure I am going to ask one of the devs to check into this and post back here.

Sean

In 1.x, there was indeed a limit- because it basically looped through attempting to find a url that wasn’t a duplicate.  In the current code, the check is more clever and there is not a limit.  The more clever is found in the API library- the _unique_url_title- which basically generates a query like:

SELECT url_title, MID(url_title, 6) + 1 AS next_suffix FROM (`exp_channel_titles`) WHERE `url_title` REGEXP('chloe[0-9]*$') AND `channel_id` = '2' ORDER BY `next_suffix` DESC LIMIT 1

Which should produce a next_suffix that is one more than the current highest suffix.  Then we stick that on it- do an extra query just to make sure it’s not a duplicate- and send the new url_title on its merry way.

So short answer?  In the current code and beyond (2.3.1) you shouldn’t have an issue with duplicate url_title limits.

Cool - thanks Robin!

mekonta, is there anything else we can help answer for you?