Removing limits on character numbers in a certain post or thread/for a certain person

[MTGDarkness]

I have the issue at my site that a few posts need to be really, really big. Like, massive. And I really don't want anyone to be able to make non-approved posts that size-just me and one or two of my mods.
I've been trying to work this in to a plugin, but I've had no luck so far.

In postdata_start.

if ($userid=151)
{
$postmaxchars=0;
}

if ($userid=151)
{
$options['postmaxchars']=0;
}
if ($userid=151)
{
$vbulletin->options['postmaxchars']=0;
}

(151 is the uid of the guy who needs to make the 50-page-posts)
It doesn't work. What do I have wrong, and how can I do this right?'

[Dismounted]

Did you look inside the post data manager file and see how things are called there?

[MTGDarkness]

I have no idea what you're talking about. :p
I assume you mean the base php file that commands posts? No, I don't know which file that is. :o I have debug mode on in my Admincp, and it gave me the variable $vbulletin->options['postmaxchars'] as the one for the maximum characters in the post.

[Lynne]

Find the postdata_start plugin in the code. Look at how variables are called around that hook. $userid is NOT a valid variable there.

[MTGDarkness]

So it would be $something->something['something'], I assume...

I've forgotten how to look for hooks in the files without looking through each file. :o

[Lynne]

Get a text editor that allows you to search in all files in a directory. There have been threads about good editors that do this. I'm on a Mac and use BBEdit which allows me to do this. (I think it is a very, very necessary tool when working on a site!)

[MTGDarkness]

$this->info['user'] is the correct var, right?

EDIT: I don't think so... I also tried $this->fetch_field['userid'] and it didn't work. I'm a little lost here. Well, more than a little.

[Lynne]

$this->info['user'] would not be right if you are looking for the userid. To be honest, I'm not sure that I would use that hook location. I've played with options before and set them differently based on either usergroup or forum or userid and used hooks like fetch_forumind and search_results_start and.... others, I'm not gonna go list them all. Have you tried any other hook locations? (And, of course, look at the code around that hook to see what variable you should be using first.)

[MTGDarkness]

I'll try some other hooks. Thanks.

[MTGDarkness]

Nope. Still lost. No clue. And I really need this.

[Lynne]

What other hooks did you try? I just through it into global_start and it worked just fiine:

if ($vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] == '1')
{
$vbulletin->options['postmaxchars']=0;
}