Length of $input->urlSegment() limited to 128 characters

[Johannes Weberhofer]

Dear all,

is there a simple way to increase the size a urlSegment can have to lets say 200 characters?

Thanks for your help,
Johannes

[Robin S]

Welcome to the forums @Johannes Weberhofer

It looks like it isn't possible to increase the allowed length of a URL segment. This is because when a URL segment is set, the value is passed through $sanitizer->name() or $sanitizer->pageNameUTF8() depending on if $config->pageNameCharset = 'UTF8' is set.

For $sanitizer->name() at least (I had some trouble debugging $sanitizer->pageNameUTF8)  the maxLength option defaults to 128, and although that method allows a custom maxLength to be used there is no option to specify this for URL segments.

I can't see why a URL segment needs to be limited to 128 characters and it would be nice to have the ability to set a higher max length. Maybe you could open a feature request at GitHub?

[Johannes Weberhofer]

Thanks @Robin S for the warm welcome!

I have created a ticket at https://github.com/processwire/processwire-requests/issues/130