Topic on Extension talk:Variables

Variables have no length limitation, but string functions do. Out of scope here.

I encounter bugs when I seek to allocate a variable of more than 1000 characters. The error I get is (in french) :

<strong class="error">Erreur : la chaîne dépasse la limite maximale de 1 000 caractères.</strong>

meaning the string exceedes the maximal size of one thousand characters.

Yet I did not find any configuration parameter to allow for more than one thousand characters (I probably need 5000 or possibly more).

Any idea how I could fix this ?

Frederic.

for web site dufal.fr

e.g. you'll find the problem in page dufal.fr/index.php/Sp%C3%A9cial:Parcourir/:F.AGSO.S0001

This is confusing, as Variables have no such limit. Are you combining them with the Loops extension, by chance?

Can you reproduce this on a normal page, given that this case is kind of weird? I do not know how this special page comes together.

Are you using StringFunctions as well? These have a length limit of 1000 characters for strings. (I tried checking myself, but I don't speak French so I had a hard time telling what was going on.)

Thanks for your prompt help. I'm using ParsingFunctions, Variables, and MyVariables (loaded in this order).

By adding the line

$wgPFStringLengthLimit=9996;

at the end of my LocalSettings.php rather than just after the loading of ParsingFunctions, it solved my problem. (I'm not sure I fully understand why).

Many thanks again.

Frederic.

That means you're using StringFunctions somewhere in the templates that page uses. The limit you increased is important for preventing denial-of-service attacks against your wiki, and the better solution here is to redesign your templates so they're not trying to pass extremely long strings through StringFunctions.

It would probably be better (more efficient and more versatile) to use Scribunto for string processing, instead of StringFunctions.