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• Started 2 years ago by jimgozieo
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• comment length limiter
• JavaScript
• maxlength
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Comment Lenght Limiter

1. • 
   • jimgozieo
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   Any one know of a Comment Length Limiter plugin that I can use for my bbPress forum. Your help is appreciated.
2. • 
   • chrishajer
   • Moderator

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   Where do you want to limit the length of input? Just in the replies? Line length, or overall amount of content? Too long usernames?
3. • 
   • jimgozieo
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   just limit comment to say 2,000 characters
4. • 
   • chrishajer
   • Moderator

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   You could do it with JavaScript like this:
   http://www.mediacollege.com/internet/javascript/form/limit-characters.html

   That will just prevent someone from going over that limit accidentally. Since it's done browser-side, there's no guaranteed way to limit the input to just 2000 characters. But to prevent a normal user from posting a comment longer than 2000 characters, this would be one way to do it.

   There is probably a way to add a maxlength to the input, but I'm not sure which template file you would need to modify to make that change (probably just post-form.php and edit-form.php, add maxlength="2000" to the textarea for a new post):

   http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_input_maxlength.asp

   Again, since that's browser-side, it can be circumvented as well. You'd have to check the input on the server side to ensure it doesn't exceed 2000 characters. But these two methods will prevent people from posting really long comments.
5. • 
   • jimgozieo
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   thanks, I'll look into this

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