On 2013-10-24 3:00 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
> 2) Search around for '255' appearing in .php, .inc, or .js files and change
> the checks to 1023.
>
> You might be able to get away with mostly changing just this bit in
> includes/Title.php:
>
> # Limit the size of titles to 255 bytes. This is typically the size
> of the
> # underlying database field. We make an exception for special
> pages, which
> # don't need to be stored in the database, and may edge over 255
> bytes due
> # to subpage syntax for long titles, e.g. [[Special:Block/Long
> name]]
> if (
> ( $this->mNamespace != NS_SPECIAL && strlen( $dbkey ) > 255 )
> || strlen( $dbkey ) > 512
> ) {
> return false;
> }
>
> Update both the 255 and the 512 check with larger numbers (the 512 check is
> for Special: pages, since they often take other page titles as parameters).
> There's a JavaScript clone of this check in
> resources/mediawiki/mediawiki.Title.js, which should probably be updated
> likewise.
Also either update all user_name fields in the database or update
User::getCanonicalName to use a 255 byte limit instead of depending only
on Title for that.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]
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