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Suggestion: add a new parameter to limit the number of characters when rendering the channel item <description>
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Description

We need to introduce an optional parameter, and a default value to limit the number of characters. An implementation idea has been posted in 2010 on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:RSS#How_to_modify_the_length_of_the_description.3F and is partially copied here:

How to modify the length of the description?

Something like this:

preg_replace('/^(.{150}).{3,}(.{25})$/us', '$1 ... $2', $item['description']);

Play around with the numbers and you'll see. --Subfader 21:48, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

        I changed rss.php a lot so I didn't check it, but it should work like this: Replace

if ( $item['description'] ) {
$text = trim( iconv( $charset, $wgOutputEncoding, $item['description'] ) );

with

if ( $item['description'] ) {
$shortdesc = preg_replace('/^(.{150}).{3,}(.{25})$/us', '$1 ... $2', $item['description']);
$text = trim( iconv( $charset, $wgOutputEncoding, $shortdesc ) );

This will shorten the description text to [150 chars ... 25 chars]. --Subfader 19:15, 16 March 2010 (UTC)


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS

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bz30377

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:52 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz30377.

added optional item-max-length attribute and $wgRSSItemMaxLength parameter.

fixed in r111350 .

must reopen it, because I need to deactivate the itme string length limitation in controlled form for solving bug34763 in r113297.

Rationale:

Feed item string length limitation is difficult when we allow HTML <a> or <img> tags, because a mere content-unaware limitation breaks (can break) tags which results in disastrous rendering results.

Solution will sought later,

(In reply to comment #4)

Gerrit change #3925

Just a warning, the feed-item length limitation (part of my pending patch) is not finally solved, because a simple "blind" truncation to a certain number of characters can break HTMLs, which is undesired. This is just a warning, and I will work on that specific issue later (when the #3925 is merged).

Thanks for your interests and adding a link to the https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/3925 .

(In reply to comment #5)

Just a warning, the feed-item length limitation (part of my pending patch) is
not finally solved, because a simple "blind" truncation to a certain number
of
characters can break HTMLs, which is undesired. This is just a warning, and I
will work on that specific issue later (when the #3925 is merged).

T. Gries: Is there a followup bug or gerrit change for this?

Closing this bug report as the corresponding Gerrit patch has been merged.

it is not solved yet.
Please leave open.

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Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 12:24 PM