Is this possible?

[GSeybold]

Is it possible to limit the number of charaters per forum? I want to limit responses to about 2 sentences in one of my forums.


Thanks.

[Lynne]

You can probably write a plugin to change the vboption for that setting just for that forum. The setting you would change is the one for max characters per post - there is none for max number of sentences.

[1Unreal]

Originally Posted by Lynne

You can probably write a plugin to change the vboption for that setting just for that forum. The setting you would change is the one for max characters per post - there is none for max number of sentences.

Is "You can probably write a plugin" permenantly on your clipboard?

[Lynne]

No, but what should I say? She asked if it was possible and any time someone asks that, the real answer is usually "sure, just about anything is possible if you code it." And, I never know how specific to get. I'm here to point people in the right direction to do what they want to do. So, I said she could write a plugin and even helped point her in the direction of the setting she'll want to change with the plugin.

[GSeybold]

Thank you so much Lynn. I have no idea how to do any of that. Is there a "how to write a plugin" tutorial somewhere? I could ask my tech support but would cost even more money. If it's an easy thing then maybe I can do it? I dunno?

Thanks so much.

Gabby

[Lynne]

There are articles in the articles forum on how to write them. Yours would be rather simple, I think. Something like:

hook location: fetch_foruminfo

PHP Code:

if ($forumid == 'xx')
{
    $vbulletin->options['postmaxchars'] = 'yy';
} 


xx is the forumid, yy is the num of characters. I haven't tested that at all, but I think it would work.

[GSeybold]

wow thank you so much Lynne!