form character limit

[Colin-Roberts]

My personal site got stuck in the world of spam bots. I need a way to limit my shoutbox to a certain number of characters.. The shoutbox is flatfile. I can post the code if it's needed,

[Iszak]

Well you'd want to set the maxlength attribute on your textarea and then you can if you want include javascript to display to the writer how many characters are left. Then an extra pre-caution could be to use strlen and check if it's the right length.

[Ryzie]

<textarea maxlength="50">

Limits the textbox to 50 characters - Also works on input fields.

[--ss--]

<textarea maxlength="50">

Limits the textbox to 50 characters - Also works on input fields.
can be modified vis javascript to make it longer, most secure way is to use the strlen php function as izsak stated ;).

[Invent]

substr( $variable, 0, 50 );