Patch to create URL as text rather than varchar

There a much easier way of dealing with this issue. The original mysql schema of 5.x-1.7 for drupal_weblinks set the url field to 155. The issue is that the weblinks.module only alllowed for 64 characters in the input field. Just update the weblinks.module to use 155.

$form['url'] = array('#type' => 'textfield',
'#title' => t('URL'),
'#default_value' => $node->url,
'#maxlength' => 155,
'#description' => t('The description can provide additional information about the link.'),
'#required' => TRUE,
);

Technically URL can be any length of characters. But the usual rule of thumb is keep them under 255 character. After that some clients may have issues. If the 155 characters if not enough for you, you can switch it up to 255. Just do a ALTER TABLE drupal_weblinks modify url varchar(255); and then update the weblinks.modules input field to 255.

Heres the diff file for the url input line change.

I cannot follow this anymore. Sure it is a problem that this url-field is too shoort (the description field has the same problem btw), but what should I do now: change the length manually? apply the patch? wait for the new version?

Thanks

Field was increased in 1.8. Marking this issue as fixed.

Thanks
Robert

This patch is a bit of a bane to me, as now my tinyMCE shows up for the URL field when editing, and there is no easy way to set the tinyMCE not to show up just for editing weblinks - it would have to be some custom PHP code. Perhaps someone could provide this? Surely a text area is not necessary? you just copy and paste the URL, you don't need to see the whole thing?

@yelloroadie: actually there is an easy way to tell TinyMCE not to do weblinks; it just can't be put into a module. Disable TinyMCE for dynamically named textareas