vibins — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:35:58 +0000

Yes but your users could enter more than 30 characters then unknowingly lose half their post. I actuly think it would be best to use all 3 methods.

loveair — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 06:57:46 +0000

I spent some time on this yesterday and found the answer:

phpadmin, table, change the field to VARCHAR and then out a 30 character limit in.

Thanks for the tips.

vibins — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 18:45:06 +0000

That is one way but any spamer could just take your code and remove it on their local machine.

but you can add this to your php code

$variable = $_POST['what-ever-the-textfield-name-is'];

$text = substr($variable,0,100);

then you can do what you want with the text variable eg

echo $text;

chrishirst — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 18:28:57 +0000

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