Cropping search URL length, questions about that

  • Sabinou

    (@sabinou1)


    12 years, 3 months ago

    Hello,

    I need to make my blog searches cropped after 100 characters, please, would you know how to achieve that result ?

    I’m sorry to ask, but I’m not fluent yet with php, and as soon as forms are involved, I’ve got a mental block, I believe 🙁

    My searchform.php is as below, do you see how it could be cropped easily from there ?

    <?php if (!is_search()) {
		$search_text = "Search The Website";
	} else {
		$search_text = "$s";
	}
?>

<form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
<input type="text" value="<?php echo wp_specialchars($search_text, 1); ?>" name="s" id="s" onfocus="if (this.value == 'Search The Website') {this.value = '';}" onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Search The Website';}" />
</form>

    I used as source http://us.php.net/substr , but I ended up realizing I wasn’t adressing the proper part of the code, it seems 🙁

    Examples not working :

    $search_text = "substr('$s', 0, 100)";
    $search_text = "$s";
$s = substr($s, 0, 4);
    $search_text = "123";

    That last example proved me I didn’t adress the right part of the code anyway, the “123” text appeared in the text written by default in my search field, and then the blog searched the whole words I was typing inside ¬_¬

    I apologize, but I don’t see where I must make the edit, as simplistic as it can be 🙁

    Please, would you know what I must change, to have the search query cropped correctly ?

    Thank you VERY MUCH if you can help, I’ll be grateful ! 🙂

    Sabinou

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  • Thread Starter Sabinou

    (@sabinou1)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Sigh.

    I wish someone had replied 🙁

    I went for a much less satisfactory solution, in the .htaccess, it return a forbidden error to all queries and URLs that are too long :

    RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .{450}
RewriteRule (.*) - [F]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  .{450}
RewriteRule (.*) - [F]
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