[Overgrow]

A quick improvement to the shoutbox_postshout template:

This allows you to limit the characters posted by checking the form onsubmit. Javascript taken from here because I'm lazy. Replace the shotubox_postshout template with:

<script Language="JavaScript">
<!-- 
function Length_TextField_Validator()
{
if ((vbform.message.value.length < 3) || (vbform.message.value.length > 500))
{
mesg = "You have entered " + vbform.message.value.length + " character"
if (vbform.message.value.length != 1) {
mesg = mesg + "s"
}
mesg = mesg + ".\nValid entries are between 3 and 500 characters.\n"
alert(mesg);
vbform.message.focus();
return (false);
}
return (true);
}
-->
</script>

<table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="0"  width="100%">
  <form action="/edge/shoutbox.php" method="post" name="vbform" onsubmit="return Length_TextField_Validator()">
  <input type="hidden" name="type" value="shout">
  
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#006633" width="100%"><normalfont color="#FFCC00"><b>Send A Message</b></normalfont></td>
  </tr>
</table>

<table cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" border="0"  width="100%">
  <tr bgcolor="#DFDFDF">
    <td width="100%"><normalfont><b>Message:</b></normalfont> &nbsp; <smallfont><b>[ 
<a href="$bburl/misc.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=showsmilies" class="small" target="_blank">Smilies</a> - 
<a href="$bburl/misc.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=bbcode" class="small" target="_blank">vB Code</a> ]</b></smallfont>
    <br/><textarea name="message" rows="10" cols="60" class="bginput" wrap></textarea>
    <br/>$smiliebits</td>
  </tr>

  <tr bgcolor="#DFDFDF">
    <td width="100%"><input type="submit" name="comment_submit" value="Shout Now!" class="bginput" accesskey="s"></td>
  </tr>
  
  </form>
</table>

Thanks to TWT for a great piece of work!