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SimplePages maximum slug length is too long to display

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
php
Domain
web-dev

Research direction

Start by locating the SimplePages code that validates or displays page slugs and inspect how the admin panel renders long values. Confirm the current behavior with a slug near 255 characters, then define and verify a shorter limit that keeps the admin display and resulting URLs usable.

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Description

Defect Major

Imported from Trac ticket #134 reported by kris on 2010-09-21:

Page slugs in SimplePages may be up to 255 characters in length. Anything approaching that is far too long to display correctly. For example, a page slug of 250 characters will run the rest of the content off the page on the SimplePages admin panel and may cause problems elsewhere.

Corollary to this is that having multiple nested pages with slugs approaching 255 characters may exceed the maximum recognized URL length of browsers like IE [http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/misc/urllength.html]

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