Minimum characters needed for a new post
 

What does this hack do?
If you post a new thread or a new reply and the message is too short (shorter than a number of characters you specify), you'll recieve an error. This *might* stop spamming.



Requested by
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=377468



Screenshots
-Admin CP Options -> [Thread Display Options]
-The actual error page



Installation
See attached text file
Approx. install time: 5 min or so
[high]After installation, remember to set the 'Minimum Characters per post' option to a suitable value (for example 50)[/high]


Updates
-fixed lil typo in the install file :) (template name was wrong)
-thanks to Zelda-King for pointing me on editpost.php ;)





[high]Please click the install button if you installed this hack!!![/high]

Screenshot
Admin options [Thread Display Options]

Screenshot
The actual error page

Nice little addition. I will make it so Admins and Mods are exempt, though. ;)

Nice idea - vB users are really hitting down on spammers nowadays ;)

- miSt

this code will do this job i think:


[high]not tested though![/high]
please tell me if it works ;)






[high]btw, anyone know if there's a similar function to in_array, but that returns FALSE where in_array returns TRUE (like checking if something is NOT in an array...)[/high]

Here's the code I was going to use.

I recommend the code be inserted into editpost.php as well. Also, in the text file you said to make a template called 'error_toolong'. Surely you mean 'error_tooshort'.

great work, i saw this on vb3, altho it's more a little pop up like the pm thing but blah, this is great!

this is nice, im gonna install

i think i'll install too

Haha, first ever hack dedicated to me! -Punches air-

Thanks for this, i'm grateful. Good job! :)

-Clicks Install-

I cant understand this one:

now, run this query:
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INSERT INTO setting VALUES ('', 8, 'Minimum Characters per post', 'postminchars', '0', 'The minimum number of characters that you want to require per post. Set this to 0 to disable it.', '', 7);
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Run it in PHPmyadmin

(SQL)

You mean Ill put everything that's inside the parenthesis?? :) I have PHPadmin running but how do I do it? What are the procedures for this?? :)

bump

You run the whole query, just like it is written:

INSERT INTO setting VALUES ('', 8, 'Minimum Characters per post', 'postminchars', '0', 'The minimum number of characters that you want to require per post. Set this to 0 to disable it.', '', 7);

in phpmyadmin, which you should be able to get to from your server. If not, talk to your host and they will tell you how to get to phpmyadmin. ;)

I know how to get to phpmyadmin, in fact i was the one who installed it. I just dont know how to run this query, what should I click and what are the fields that I should fill up? Is it ok to provide me the steps? :)

Ok, let's try this one last time. ;)

Before you do anything, backup your database!

Go to phpmyadmnin and click on the database name (at the top) in the left window. You will see 5 options in the right hand window. They are:

Structure
SQL
Export
Search
Query

Click on the SQL option and enter this in the big box (just copy and paste):

INSERT INTO setting VALUES ('', 8, 'Minimum Characters per post', 'postminchars', '0', 'The minimum number of characters that you want to require per post. Set this to 0 to disable it.', '', 7);

Hit go and you are done.

Wow! That was easy! thanks :)

Ei, what if I dont want this hack anymore, how do I uninstall it?? :)

Why not just set the min characters to 0 to disallow?

Leider ist die .txt Datei nicht mehr vollständig.
Könnte das vielleicht nochmal jemand anhängen?

This hack is exactly what I was looking for! It works great, thanks a lot!

I installed the hack, works fine. One of my mods asked if it would be possible to make a different limit based on post count? We basicially want newbies to post more information than our regular members, so we want a higher minimum for the newbs.