Fixes #3123. Datalists and config names can now be up to 255 chars long. Debug mode is disabled when caching views to avoid saving bad stuff.

git-svn-id: http://code.elgg.org/elgg/trunk@8746 36083f99-b078-4883-b0ff-0f9b5a30f544

3 files changed, 27 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/engine/lib/cache.php b/engine/lib/cache.php
index bc279e8ea..d4888f9d9 100644
--- a/engine/lib/cache.php
+++ b/engine/lib/cache.php
@@ -213,6 +213,10 @@ function elgg_regenerate_simplecache($viewtype = NULL) {
 
 	$original_viewtype = elgg_get_viewtype();
 
+	// disable error reporting so we don't cache problems
+	$old_debug = elgg_get_config('debug');
+	elgg_set_config('debug', null);
+
 	foreach ($viewtypes as $viewtype) {
 		elgg_set_viewtype($viewtype);
 		foreach ($CONFIG->views->simplecache as $view) {
@@ -228,6 +232,7 @@ function elgg_regenerate_simplecache($viewtype = NULL) {
 		datalist_set("simplecache_lastcached_$viewtype", $lastcached);
 	}
 
+	elgg_set_config('debug', $old_debug);
 	elgg_set_viewtype($original_viewtype);
 
 	// needs to be set for links in html head
diff --git a/engine/lib/configuration.php b/engine/lib/configuration.php
index 7e660c34b..4679a70d8 100644
--- a/engine/lib/configuration.php
+++ b/engine/lib/configuration.php
@@ -143,8 +143,8 @@ function elgg_save_config($name, $value, $site_guid = 0) {
 
 	$name = trim($name);
 
-	if (strlen($name) > 32) {
-		elgg_log("The name length for configuration variables cannot be greater than 32", "ERROR");
+	if (strlen($name) > 255) {
+		elgg_log("The name length for configuration variables cannot be greater than 255", "ERROR");
 		return false;
 	}
 
@@ -277,8 +277,8 @@ function datalist_set($name, $value) {
 	global $CONFIG, $DATALIST_CACHE;
 
 	// cannot store anything longer than 32 characters in db, so catch before we set
-	if (elgg_strlen($name) > 32) {
-		elgg_log("The name length for configuration variables cannot be greater than 32", "ERROR");
+	if (elgg_strlen($name) > 255) {
+		elgg_log("The name length for configuration variables cannot be greater than 255", "ERROR");
 		return false;
 	}
 
diff --git a/engine/lib/upgrades/2011031600-1.8_svn-datalist_grows_up-0b8aec5a55cc1e1c.php b/engine/lib/upgrades/2011031600-1.8_svn-datalist_grows_up-0b8aec5a55cc1e1c.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..379244b36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/engine/lib/upgrades/2011031600-1.8_svn-datalist_grows_up-0b8aec5a55cc1e1c.php
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * Elgg 1.8-svn upgrade 2011031600
+ * datalist_grows_up
+ *
+ * Ups the varchar to 256 for the datalist and config table.
+ *
+ * Keeping it as a varchar because of the trailing whitespace trimming it apparently does:
+ * http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/char.html
+ */
+
+$db_prefix = elgg_get_config('dbprefix');
+
+$q = "ALTER TABLE {$db_prefix}datalists CHANGE name name VARCHAR(255)";
+update_data($q);
+
+$q = "ALTER TABLE {$db_prefix}config CHANGE name name VARCHAR(255)";
+update_data($q);