Minimum Message Size?

[Brekkee]

I'm looking for a mod that would allow the admins to set a specific amount of characters that a message would have to contain before it was allowed to be posted.  Basically the opposite of limiting the maximum size of a message.

Does something like this exist?

Thanks!

--Brekkee

[Spaceman-Spiff]

u dont like ppl to post one liners?

[Brekkee]

One liners aren't the problem.. it's the one word posts the the site owner doesn't like

[Spaceman-Spiff]

open Post.php, search for:

Code Select Expand

   if (trim($message) == '')
      fatal_error($txt[78]);
add after

Code Select Expand

   if (strlen(trim($message)) < 10)
      fatal_error("Your message is too short.");
where 10 is the minumum characters in a post
and "Your message is too short." is the error message

you can also do it with javascript, but imo this way is better for ppl that post only 1 word

[[Unknown]]

I agree there.... one word posts are terrible...

As a really simple method of doing it... (they will still be able to edit it and make it short, but I did say simple!)

Post.php...
Search:

Code Select Expand

   if (strlen($message) > $MaxMessLen)
      fatal_error($txt[499]);

Replace:

Code Select Expand

   if (strlen($message) > $MaxMessLen)
      fatal_error($txt[499]);

   if (strlen($message) < 15)
      fatal_error('Your message is too short.  Please make your posts meaningful, so as to contribute to the community.');

I didn't bother to test it... but if that doesn't work I'll eat my hat .  (wait... I'm not wearing a hat....)

[edit: Blah! 5 seconds... I had to read it over to make sure it would work.]

-[Unknown]

[Brekkee]

Thank you both for your wonderfully quick and helpful responses.  No need to eat any hats.  It worked great!


Thanks again

[David]