RE: [PHP] Limiting text inputs by character count?
| From: | John Holmes | Date: | Mon, 24 Jun 2002 03:10:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Limiting text inputs by character count? | ||
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The best way to do this is server side with strlen(). You can use
javascript or maxlength, but if a user wants to get around it, they can.
---John Holmes...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Towell [mailto:martin.towell@world.net]
> Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 9:47 PM
> To: 'aajdubuc@webhart.net'; php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: RE: [PHP] Limiting text inputs by character count?
>
> a) maxlength="xx"
> b) use javascript
> (document.forms["frm_name"].elements["textarea"].value.length)
> (I think you need the ".value" bit)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andre Dubuc [mailto:aajdubuc@webhart.net]
> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 11:53 AM
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: [PHP] Limiting text inputs by character count?
>
>
> Is there a way to limit the number of characters that may be inputed
into:
> a) a <input type=text . . . > input
> b) a <textarea . . . > input
>
> I would like to control the maximum number of characters for each of
these
> inputs.
>
> Any suggestions of where to look, or how to do it, if it's possible,
would
> be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Tia,
> Andre
>
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