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URL Length limit in Portal Block
Hey guys, I'm an iTunes affiliate (allupons.com) and would like to set up a portal block for top albums etc, but my links for this are extremely long (see example). Can I adjust the limitation on URL length somewhere?
example link:
example link:
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http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wpa/MRSS/featuredalbums/sf=143441/genre=55ffb7b/limit=10/rss.xml?partnerId=30&LS_PARAM=http%3A%2F%2Fclick.linksynergy.com%2Ffs-bin%2Fstat%3Fid%3DyYeM%2F1CrjMc%26offerid%3D78941%26type%3D3%26subid%3D0%26tmpid%3D1826%26RD_PARM1%3D
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Dirk
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Yep, the max. URL length supported is 255 characters.
You could change that for the gl_blocks table in phpMyAdmin and update the following line in admin/block.php accordingly:
bye, Dirk
You could change that for the gl_blocks table in phpMyAdmin and update the following line in admin/block.php accordingly:
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$block_templates->set_var('max_url_length', 255);bye, Dirk
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r_f_o_t
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I don't know if it would mess up your clicks, but there is also tinyurl.com
HTH,
Chuck
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HTH,
Chuck
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I tried, but it seems that there's a limit in SQL that won't allow more than 255. I tried BLOB, but it doesn't look like GL supports that as is.
Is there a limit other than these settings that we can't bypass?
ALTER TABLE `gl_blocks` CHANGE `rdfurl` `rdfurl` VARCHAR( 300 ) DEFAULT NULL
MySQL said: Documentation
#1074 - Too big column length for column 'rdfurl' (max = 255). Use BLOB instead
Is there a limit other than these settings that we can't bypass?
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SQL-query:ALTER TABLE `gl_blocks` CHANGE `rdfurl` `rdfurl` VARCHAR( 300 ) DEFAULT NULL
MySQL said: Documentation
#1074 - Too big column length for column 'rdfurl' (max = 255). Use BLOB instead
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machinari
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What do you mean that geeklog doesn't support BLOB?
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