Slug-length longer than 128 characters possible?

Kirby 3 Issues 🐛
1

Hello,
it seems config’s ‘slugs.maxlength’ can only be used to limit length to less than 128, but not more.

However we are moving from an old page with quite long urls and I would need to allow up to 258 characters.

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance,
Witold

2
3

Well, this does not answer my question. I already new the option “maxlength”, as I mentioned in my question. Problem is, how can I make a slug longer than 128, not shorter.

4

It does not say that you can only shorten the slug.
By entering a value above 120, you can increase the slug length.
I have just tested it and it works perfectly.
Here is an example with 258 characters:

slug-200
slug-2001020×1054 89.8 KB

/site/config/config.php

return [
  'slugs.maxlength' => 258
];

If you need help with the configuration of config.php, I will be happy to help you here.

5

Okay, did absolutely not work for me, I tried several things. Must then be another problem with my configuration, not a general thing with the maxlength-option.
Good to now - thanks a lot.

6

Problems can be solved. But we need to know the cause.
Have you installed additional plugins?
Can you post the code from your config.php here?

@texnixe Can the length of the slugs only be changed with Kirby 4, or also with Kirby 3?

7

I’m on 3.9
If I put maxlength to 127 or lower the mentioned warning comes, if I put 128 or higher, no warning, but slug is capped at 128

Excerpt from config

<?php

// Load dotenv class so env() can be used in config file
require_once __DIR__ . '/../plugins/kirby3-dotenv/global.php';

loadenv([
  'dir' => realpath(__DIR__ . '/../../'), // .env files are located in project root
  // Declare strictly required env variables here – an exception will be thrown if missing!
  // 'required' => [
  //   'MY_SECRET'
  // ]
]);

return [
  'debug' => true,
  'loadMarker.io' => false,

  'cache' => [
    'pages' => [
      'active' => false,
      'ignore' => function ($page) {
        $cockpitPage = getPageById(option('page-autoid-cockpit'));
        $ignoredTemplates = ['tp-cockpit', 'tp-cockpit-form'];
        return in_array($page->template()->name(), $ignoredTemplates) || $page->isChildOf($cockpitPage);
      }
    ],
    'shopware' => [
      'active' => true,
    ]
  ],

  'panel' => [
    'install' => true,
    'css' => 'panel.css',
  ],

  'updates' => 'security',

  'markdown' => [
    'extra' => false
  ],

  'slugs' => 'de',
  'slugs.maxlength' => 129,

  'session' => [
    'durationNormal' => 10800, // 3 hours
    'durationLong' => 2419200, // 4 weeks
    'timeout' => 3600, // 1 hour
  ],

  // Language & Locale settings
  'languages' => true,
  'languages.detect' => true,
  'locale' => 'de_DE.utf-8',
  'date.handler'  => 'intl',
8

I was able to reproduce the behaviour: I have just installed a fresh starterkit with Kirby 3.9. Although I have extended the length of the slugs to 258 characters in config.php, it is shortened to 128 characters. There is also no warning that the slug is too long. In Kirby 4 it works as expected. Perhaps it is a (not yet discovered) error? Therefore, I hope for feedback from @texnixe , if there is another setting for Kirby 3.9.