If you want to prevent the string from being posted unless the user writes it using less than 100 characters, the function you're looking for is strlen()
http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.strlen.php as in if (strlen ($string) > 1000) echo 'error'; Otherwise you can simply truncate the string using substr as Martin suggested. Marco Marco ------------- php|architect -- The Monthly Magazine For PHP Professionals Come visit us on the web at http://www.phparch.com! On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 20:53, Håkan wrote: > Let's say I have a text field in my mysql database, and a <textarea> where I > write whatever, and I want to limit it to 1000 chars or something like that > before I add it to the database, I know I can do it with javascript, but > that's so messy and I don't have time to figure that out right now :) > > Håkan > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
