Author Topic: Lenght create contact special chars (Read 381 times)

rubofvil · October 22, 2013, 05:35:40 am

I'm trying to import some contacts with API,
When i create the contact with the contact form(civicrm/contact/add?reset=1&ct=Individual) is not problem.
But when I create the same contact with the API, the validation give me a problem with maxlength .
I think that the Greek chars are counted two times.

Example with this First name: "ΚΑΙΑΣΚΕΥΑΣΤΩΝ ΝΙΚΑΙΑΣ-ΚΟΡΥΔ-ΠΚΟΡΥΠΚ" (35 chars)
"error_message":"Value for first_name is 67 characters - This field has a maxlength of 64 characters.",

Any possible solution? Thanks!

rubofvil · October 22, 2013, 06:56:20 am

I change in file civicrm/api/v3/utils.php

In line 1548(version 4.3.7)

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elseif (is_string($value) && !empty($fieldInfo['maxlength']) && strlen($value) > $fieldInfo['maxlength']) {

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elseif (is_string($value) && !empty($fieldInfo['maxlength']) && mb_strlen($value) > $fieldInfo['maxlength']) {
I hope that this change not be critical.

Luciano S. · October 22, 2013, 07:12:27 am

Hi, two ideas about this:

1. Be sure mbstring extension is enabled (not by default in PHP)
http://www.php.net/manual/en/mbstring.installation.php

2. Would be a good idea to pass the encodig paramater to mb_strlen() function. If not you are relying on server default encoding. For instance:

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mb_strlen($str, "UTF-8");http://es1.php.net/manual/en/function.mb-strlen.php

cheers!

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