WastedTimes Long URL and File Names... |
| Author: | jkf [ Thu 09 Feb, 2006 ] |
| Post subject: | Long URL and File Names... |
Thanks for doing an excellent job posting stuff. I have a favor to ask from those of you that are using extra long file names. Its killing the database and the search function. Can you guys limit the total filename to about 32 characters long at most and not exceed 80 characters for any URL. The text search function used by phpBB sucks and it gets confused when it gets too long and stop looking for matches when it encounters an error. Also the SQL becomes error prone because many of the long strings start looking the same due to trunctation. Also please try to name your upload files with short meaningless names as this will keep people searching places like rapidshare and other upload sites with the google trick, unable to figure out what is in the file. thx |
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