? 269929_Break_alias_at_word-15.patch
Index: pathauto.inc
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RCS file: /cvs/drupal-contrib/contributions/modules/pathauto/pathauto.inc,v
retrieving revision 1.47
diff -u -p -r1.47 pathauto.inc
--- pathauto.inc	4 Aug 2008 16:44:47 -0000	1.47
+++ pathauto.inc	4 Aug 2008 18:43:19 -0000
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ function pathauto_cleanstring($string, $
 
   // Enforce the maximum component length
   $maxlength = min(variable_get('pathauto_max_component_length', 100), 128);
-  $output = drupal_substr($output, 0, $maxlength);
+  $output = _pathauto_truncate($output, $maxlength, $separator);
 
   return $output;
 }
@@ -297,13 +297,7 @@ function pathauto_create_alias($module, 
   $maxlength = min(variable_get('pathauto_max_length', 100), 128);
 
   // Make sure we're not ending the alias in the middle of a word.
-  $alias = drupal_substr($alias, 0, $maxlength + 1); // leave one more character
-  if ($last_break = strrpos($alias, $separator)) { // space exists AND is not on position 0
-    $alias = substr($alias, 0, $last_break);
-  }
-  else {
-    $alias = drupal_substr($alias, 0, $maxlength);
-  }
+  $alias = _pathauto_truncate($alias, $maxlength, $separator);
 
   // If the alias already exists, generate a new, hopefully unique, variant
   if (_pathauto_alias_exists($alias, $src, $language)) {
@@ -511,3 +505,29 @@ function pathauto_punctuation_chars() {
 
   return $punctuation;
 }
+
+/**
+ * A Pathauto friendly version of truncate_utf8
+ *
+ * @param $string
+ *   The string to be truncated.
+ * @param $length
+ *   An integer for the maximum desired length.
+ * @param $separator
+ *   A string which contains the word boundary such as - or _.
+ *
+ * @return
+ *  The string truncated below the maxlength.
+ */
+function _pathauto_truncate($string, $length, $separator) {
+  if (drupal_strlen($string) > $length) {
+    $string = drupal_substr($string, 0, $length + 1); // leave one more character
+    if ($last_break = strrpos($string, $separator)) { // space exists AND is not on position 0
+      $string = substr($string, 0, $last_break);
+    }
+    else {
+      $string = drupal_substr($string, 0, $length);
+    }
+  }
+  return $string;
+}
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