Bug #77642
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preg_match: Compilation failed: regular expression is too large at offset 27
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Description
If the cropHTML function (typo3/sysext/frontend/Classes/ContentObject/ContentObjectRenderer.php) is called to crop at 1074 (or more) characters it fails with this error message:
PHP Warning: preg_match(): Compilation failed: regular expression is too large at offset 27 in typo3/sysext/frontend/Classes/ContentObject/ContentObjectRenderer.php
Increasing pcre.backtrack_limit or pcre.recursion_limit in php.ini doesn't help.
To reproduce the bug you can use the news extension. Create a news with a teaser text of more the 1073 characters and set up the list plugin to crop the teaser text at 1074 characters. Cropping at 1073 characters will work.
Here you find a discussion about this problem:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31172837/regular-expression-is-too-large-error-in-php
Possible solutions:
- If you are trying to match/parse HTML, I would recommend using DOMDocument to parse the HTML and then walk the DOM tree or build an XPATH to find what you're looking for.
- Shorten the Regular Expression by using DEFINE for any redundant sub-expressions (see below).
- Split your regular expression at | and process the resulting sub-expressions separately. If the regex is essentially numerous keywords separated by |, then converting to a strtok or a loop with strpos may be a better & faster choice.
TYPO3: 6.2.26
PHP: 5.5.14
Linux: SLES 12 SP1
Cheers,
Tobias
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