Re: How to limit chars?

If you want to prevent the string from being posted unless the user writes it using less than 100 characters, the function you're looking for is strlen() http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.strlen.php as in if (strlen ($string) > 1000) echo 'error'; Otherwise you can simply truncate the string using substr as Martin suggested. Marco Marco ------------- php|architect -- The Monthly Magazine For PHP Professionals Come visit us on the web at http://www.phparch.com! On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 20:53, Håkan wrote: > Let's say I have a text field in my mysql database, and a <textarea> where I > write whatever, and I want to limit it to 1000 chars or something like that > before I add it to the database, I know I can do it with javascript, but > that's so messy and I don't have time to figure that out right now :) > > Håkan > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >