Minimum post characters?

[Furry]

I was looking through administration trying to find an option to set the minimum amount of characters a user needs in their post, but ran out of luck.

I saw a mod that did this, but it's out of date and won't work with 2.0. I'm wondering, is there's actually a built in feature that I didn't see, or an update for this mod that I'm unaware of?

EDIT: To add to this, I did a bit of searching around and found some code in post.php:

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elseif (!empty($modSettings['max_messageLength']) && $smcFunc['strlen']($_POST['message']) > $modSettings['max_messageLength'])
$post_errors[] = 'long_message';


That, I'm guessing is the code checking to long messages, would it be difficult to use this to check for an insufficient amount of text as well?

[codenaught]

Sure.

After that you could add something like:

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elseif ($smcFunc['strlen']($_POST['message']) < 5)
  $post_errors[] = 'short_message';

Then in Themes/default/languages/Errors.english.php you can add somewhere in the file:

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$txt['error_short_message'] = 'The message does not have the minimum number of characters required of 5.';

Of course adjusting the 5 to what you want and the error message to whatever you want.

[xyxis_fahim]

Can the earlier version be edited to fit 2.0?
Tnx

[codenaught]

Do you mean the mod offers some type of functionality that the code hack I posted doesn't have or you just don't want to manually edit the code?

You would have to ask the author of the mod about the mod being updated for 2.0.

[xyxis_fahim]

Well,
This is the mod I speak of.

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=290

I will try contacting the Author.

Thanks.

[Furry]

Many thanks akabugeyes, this works nicely.

[Aileen]

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elseif (!empty($modSettings['max_messageLength']) && $smcFunc['strlen']($_POST['message']) > $modSettings['max_messageLength'])
$post_errors[] = 'long_message';

elseif ($smcFunc['strlen']($_POST['message']) < 5)
  $post_errors[] = 'short_message';


Should the code look like this? since it is under?


BTW where to place this


Thanks


Any instruction for a non-developer?