How to make word length limit in php

Question

I'm trying to make a forum and I have a problem. How can I make a word length limit?So you can't post a word with 32+ characters.

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 23 '14 at 15:22

Use a css property

word-break: break-all;

say your word was saved with the tags

In the css file you should do this

p {
    word-break: break-all;
}

Basically this means that a word can break even though two letters are consecutive so this:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Would become this: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Celt · Answer 2 · 2014-10-23T15:04:23.903

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You can do it by setting the max-length value in a form like this:

<form action="demo_form.asp">
    Username: <input type="text" name="usrname" maxlength="10"><br>
    <input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

See here for more info on form length and php.

edited Oct 23 '14 at 15:04

answered Oct 23 '14 at 14:57

Celt

That's not what I'm looking for ;/ I don't wanna limit the post, I want to limit the characters in a word. So you can't post a word like this (AAAAAAAAAAAFAFSFHASJHFASKJFSHGAGFSAFJSAGFJSAGFJSGAFSGAFJSAGFSJAGF) , because it has more than 32 characters. – tsvmitev Oct 23 '14 at 15:00

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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In plain HTML???

<textarea maxlength="32"></textarea>

you can use Javascript to count number of characters that are in the textarea.

here is something similar using jQuery Count characters in textarea

edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

Community

answered Oct 23 '14 at 14:58

clarenswd

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 23 '14 at 15:18

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You can for example explode() the post into words and use count() on each of them to get their length, but what is the point?

answered Oct 23 '14 at 15:18

Rafał Swacha

Ok I'll try this and I need it because see what's happening if there's no word length limit : http://i.imgur.com/UBKUKdP.jpg – tsvmitev Oct 23 '14 at 15:22

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