Character limit on display name

Bug #618553 reported by Kristina Hoeppner
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Mahara
Fix Released
Medium
Richard Mansfield

Bug Description

A student of Richard Jones created an overly long display names with hundreds of characters (see http://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=2142 for a screenshot).

The display name should be limited to a reasonable (30-50?) amount of characters.

Revision history for this message
Richard Mansfield (richard-mansfield) wrote :

Let's just add some validation to the edit profile form before 1.3.

If it becomes a big problem we can open a new bug to deal with existing long names later. (We could write an upgrade to truncate the existing ones in the db and/or truncate them with the str_shorten_text function in the places they're displayed.)

Changed in mahara:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → 1.3.0
Changed in mahara:
assignee: nobody → Richard Mansfield (richard-mansfield)
Changed in mahara:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Changed in mahara:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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