Long title/s spills over in the sidebar

[nothingman]

Whenever a user posts a comment with a long url or if the characters of a word in a story exceed a certain amount, the comment/story title spill over the sidebar module and looks like this.



As you can see, the presentation looks quite sloppy and I was wondering if there's a way to wrap the comment/title?

[tbones]

I don´t know the file that corresponds to Top Today but this revision (SourceForge.net Repository - [pligg] Revision 1267) helped me with Upcoming News and Published News sidebar.

[sixlaneve]

You have to change sidebar_stories.php and sidebar_stories_u.php, line 32

$ss->TitleLengthLimit = 30;

30 is the limit of character displayed, try with 20 or 25

[skins4webs]

In addition, when you have a long line with no spaces the text will not wrap.

[nothingman]

thanks for the replies, but I don't see any $ss->TitleLengthLimit=30 in the sidebar_stories.php and sidebar_stories_u.php files. Is it OK if I add this line in these files? I'm using 9.7.
Here's how my sidebar_stories.php looks

<?php
// The source code packaged with this file is Free Software, Copyright (C) 2005 by
// Ricardo Galli <gallir at uib dot es>.
// It's licensed under the AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE unless stated otherwise.
// You can get copies of the licenses here:
// affero.org: affero general public license
// AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE is also included in the file called "COPYING".
// -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

include_once('Smarty.class.php');
if(!isset($main_smarty)){$main_smarty = new Smarty;}
// If we're calling this page through another page like index.php, $main_smarty will already be set
// If we're calling this page directly, set main_smarty

include_once('config.php');
include_once(mnminclude.'html1.php');
include_once(mnminclude.'link.php');
include_once(mnminclude.'tags.php');
include_once(mnminclude.'search.php');
include_once(mnminclude.'smartyvariables.php');
include_once(mnminclude.'sidebarstories.php');

global $the_template, $main_smarty;

// for filterTo you can use "published", "queued" or "all"
// to change the way the links look, edit /tempates/<your template>/sidebar_stories.tpl

$ss = new SidebarStories();
$ss->orderBy = "link_date DESC"; // newest on top.
$ss->pagesize = 5; // the number of items to show in the box.

if(pagename == "published"){
$ss->filterToStatus = "queued";
$ss->header = $main_smarty->get_config_vars("PLIGG_Visual_Pligg_Queued");
$ss->link = getmyurl("upcoming");
}
elseif(pagename == "upcoming"){
$ss->filterToStatus = "published";
$ss->header = $main_smarty->get_config_vars("PLIGG_Visual_Published_News");
$ss->link = my_base_url.my_pligg_base;
}
else{
$ss->filterToStatus = "published";
$ss->header = $main_smarty->get_config_vars("PLIGG_Visual_Published_News");
$ss->link = my_base_url.my_pligg_base;
}


if($the_template == "mollio-beat" || $the_template == "paul01") {

echo "<img src=minus.gif class=showstate onClick=expandcontent(this,'ss') /><h3>".$ss->header."</h3><div id=ss class=switchcontent>";
$ss->template = $the_template . '/sidebar_stories.tpl';
$ss->show();
echo "</div>";

}

elseif ($the_template == "digitalnature") {

echo "<div class=box><h1><span class=expand><a href=javascript:toggle('stories','expstories'); id=expstories class=expand-up></a></span><a href=javascript:toggle('stories','expstories');".$ ss->header."</a></h1><div class=box2 id=stories><div class=wrap><div class=content>";
$ss->template = $the_template . '/sidebar_stories.tpl';
$ss->show();
echo "</div></div></div></div>";

}

elseif ($the_template == "yget") {

echo "<div class=tlb><span><a onclick=\"new Effect.toggle('ssstories','blind', {queue: 'end'}); \"> <img src=\"".my_base_url.my_pligg_base."/templates/".The_Template."/images/expand.png\" /></a></span><a href=\"".$ss->link."\">".$ss->header."</a></div><div id=ssstories style=padding-bottom:2px>";
$ss->template = $the_template . '/sidebar_stories.tpl';
$ss->show();
echo "</div>";

}

else {

echo "<fieldset><legend><a href=\"".$ss->link."\">".$ss->header."</a></legend>";
$ss->template = $the_template . '/sidebar_stories.tpl';
$ss->show();
echo "</fieldset>";

}
?>