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]

[ZiRu$]

i think i'll install too

[McDohl]

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

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

-Clicks Install-

[ga.net]

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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[Koutaru]

Run it in PHPmyadmin

(SQL)

[ga.net]

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??

[ga.net]

bump

[Boofo]

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.

[ga.net]

Yesterday at 10:05 PM Boofo said this in Post #17
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?

[Boofo]

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.

[ga.net]

Wow! That was easy! thanks