[ZendTo] 'Your Organization' field too long for database

[jules at zend.to]

Liam,

Thank you for spotting that!

I will work out a fix (and an automatic way of quietly fixing the DB 
schema to extend this field) and put it in the next release.

BTW I assume you're using a MySQL DB back-end, yes?

Cheers,
Jules.

On 17/09/2020 08:26, Gretton, Liam via ZendTo wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> When someone requests to drop-off a file, one of the fields to 
> complete is 'Your organization'. If the user enters more than 32 
> characters here (which is not disallowed), then the form fails. The 
> zendto log reports:
>
> Error: Failed to add 2a753247dd272bb39c4547da5b44550f to authtable for 
> user at example.com. Error was Data too long for column 'Organization' at 
> row 1
>
> The column in the DB is only 32 characters, but the code is not 
> truncating the data from the form before trying to push it in.
>
> I'm currently running 6.03-5, though a check of the release notes of 
> the newer versions doesn't mention a fix for this yet.
>
> This has hit us with some collaborators whose organisations really do 
> have long names such as ' Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute' 
> so my preference would be for the db field to be longer, and to have 
> the code truncate anything that doesn't fit. If I can find time today 
> I'll have a look through the code and try to submit a patch.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Liam
>
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