[drives fast]

I tried it with "and" in place of the "or" and still doesn't allow team members to by-pass the limit

just a recap on what has been tried:

first tried this:

if (strlen($message)>$postmaxchars and $postmaxchars!=0 and ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!=6) or ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!=5) or ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!=7)) {
eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate("error_toolong ")."\");");
}

then tried this:

if (strlen($message)>$postmaxchars and $postmaxchars!=0 and !in_array($bbuserinfo[usergroupid], array(5, 6, 7))) {
eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate("error_toolong ")."\");");
}

then tried this:

if (strlen($message)>$postmaxchars and $postmaxchars!=0 and ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!=6) and ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!=5) and ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!=7)) {
eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate("error_toolong ")."\");");
}

with no results.

any other ideas?