Short Description Max 400

[ajensen27]

Have the short description max characters set to 0 in admin but I'm still getting an error message when trying to go over 400. Am I missing something or is this a bug?

This description_short field (English (English)) is too long: 400 chars max (current count 438).

[Havouza]

I set mine to 1000 and it worked

[wakabayashi]

I am not completly sure about it, but we have done the same as Havouza. Just putting a big number there instead of 0... Please write if it works for you as well. If this solves your problem, then it's a bug...

[Havouza]

There is nothing that says that a 0 means unlimited. It say Max size of short description and the note say set max characters for the short description

[dynambee]

In the database table (tbproductlang) both [description] and [description_short] are of TEXT type which allows up to 65,535 characters.

You should be able to set the limit to anything up to ~65,530 if you wish. It goes without saying of course that actually using such a long "short" description would wreak havoc with most templates.

[ajensen27]

Thanks everyone. Setting it to a larger number worked. Figured 0 would be unlimited though.

[Havouza]

0=0 ;-)

[dynambee]

@Havouza said in Short Description Max 400:

0=0 ;-)

It actually seems like in this case 0=400...

[Havouza]

You are right. Interesting

[dynambee]

@mdekker said in Short Description Max 400:

Interesting, I found this limit: https://github.com/thirtybees/thirtybees/blob/1.0.1/controllers/admin/AdminProductsController.php#L1913-L1917

Even if the description is configured to be more than 400, it will reset to 400.

The original idea was to allow only 400 characters and it strips the HTML characters before counting, so basically the other 65,130 characters are reserved for any HTML you would like to add to the short description. Seems like overkill to me.

I don't use PHP regularly and I'm pretty terrible at hacking my way around it when necessary but doesn't that section (specifically lines 1915-1917) set the limit to be 400 if the limit is defined as less than or equal to zero?

if ($limit <= 0) {
    $limit = 400;
}