Stop showing post count after it gets to a certain number

[Ian Montgomerie]

Bumping this thread, because I'm trying to do the same thing, without removing the separator.

I am happy with just displaying "1000 or more" if the user has 1000 or more posts. I figure that you can check for this using strlen($post[posts]) > 3.

Problem is... can I call strlen from a template? It's not allowed within the if conditional itself. Can I call a function somewhere else and have it set a variable? I know PHP but am a bit clueless about how much of it fits into VBulletin templates.

Currently I've hacked a solution as follows:

<if condition="($post[posts]{0}==NULL) || ($post[posts]{1}==NULL) || ($post[posts]{2}==NULL) || ($post[posts]{3}==NULL)">
$vbphrase[posts]: $post[posts]
<else />
$vbphrase[posts]: 1000 or more
</if>