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bokhalifa

01-08-2002, 10:22 AM

Welcome back again :)

Today we have something new

A hack to count how many characters remaining for you in the thread

As we will know that the threads and posts are limited to 10000 characters and if you over typed you will get an error message.

So now with this hack you can free type and know how many characters are remaning for you in this thread.
:D

bokhalifa

01-08-2002, 10:24 AM

:) DEMO

bokhalifa

01-08-2002, 10:25 AM

;)

sleepbirdcyp

01-08-2002, 10:45 AM

Welldone!

Thank You!

bokhalifa

01-08-2002, 10:55 AM

:D You are welcome, :)

MarkB

01-08-2002, 11:36 AM

Nice! :)

bokhalifa

01-08-2002, 11:47 AM

Thanks ;)

illogicalx

01-08-2002, 12:17 PM

ohhh :D
nice hack bokhalifa

thankx

Lesane

01-08-2002, 04:07 PM

Thanks for the great hack.

bokhalifa

01-08-2002, 04:17 PM

welcome :D

Jawelin

01-08-2002, 04:50 PM

Very cool!!

What about putting something similar on PM page to show the 1000 char limit ?

;)
Thanks a lot

bokhalifa

01-08-2002, 05:10 PM

You are welcome my friend, and more thanks to you because you allways let me feel that I am in the right way :D

bokhalifa

01-08-2002, 05:13 PM

You are welcome, yes you can use it in the PM and the instllation steps are in the attached file above. :) ;)

StarBuG

01-08-2002, 05:24 PM

Great hack! THX

But:

If I edit a post the character counter is still 10000 even if there are more then 100 chars written!

Solution?

Greetings

StarBuG

bokhalifa

01-08-2002, 06:54 PM

:rolleyes: Oh I see , I will try to make an update to this hack and I will try to include a new feature in it.
Thanks for your note. ;)

StarBuG

01-11-2002, 09:48 AM

THX!

I will keep an eye on this Thread! :D

Greetings

StarBuG

Arathorn

01-14-2002, 03:36 AM

Is anyone else having this problem?

The character count for PMs is wrong. I allow 10K chars for posts, but only 1K for PMs. After editing the PM templates, the number of allowed characters are 10K, not 1K.

Arathorn

01-18-2002, 12:53 PM

Follow the instructions, but instead of:

maxLength="$postmaxchars"

use

maxLength="$pmmaxchars"

AND instead of:

Maximum Number of characters
for this text box is $postmaxchars. 
You have $postmaxchars
characters remaining for your description...

use

Maximum Number of characters
for this text box is $postmaxchars. 
You have $pmmaxchars
characters remaining for your description...

That's it.