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FlyingDutchman

04-03-2003 10:00 PM

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]

FlyingDutchman

04-04-2003 12:07 PM

Screenshot
Admin options [Thread Display Options]

FlyingDutchman

04-04-2003 12:08 PM

Screenshot
The actual error page

Boofo

04-04-2003 12:33 PM

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

Dean C

04-04-2003 12:34 PM

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

- miSt

FlyingDutchman

04-04-2003 01:40 PM

Quote:

Today at 03:33 PM Boofo said this in Post #4
Nice little addition. I will make it so Admins and Mods are exempt, though. ;)

this code will do this job i think:

PHP Code:


		
			
  $minmod = array("1", "2", "3", "4");

  if (strlen($message)<$postminchars and $postminchars!=0 and in_array("$bbuserinfo[usergroupid]", $minmod)) {

    eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate("error_tooshort")."\");");

  }

[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]

Boofo

04-04-2003 01:55 PM

Here's the code I was going to use.

PHP Code:


		
			
  if (strlen($message)<$postminchars and $postminchars!=0 AND !in_array($bbuserinfo[usergroupid], array(5, 6, 7))) {

    eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate("error_tooshort")."\");");

  }

Zelda-King

04-04-2003 03:46 PM

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'.

sabret00the

04-04-2003 09:12 PM

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

Spitfireisgod

04-04-2003 10:09 PM

this is nice, im gonna install

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