[not bug] max PM characters devided by 2?

[s.molinari]

Hello.

A user on our board asked this and I couldn't give him a logical answer (go figure) so now I'm here to ask the vB gods. ;)

The question: Why are the maximum PM characters devided by 2 in the "priv_sendprivmsg" template. Here is the code.

<script language="javascript">
<!--
var pmmaxchars = $pmmaxchars;
function validate(theform) {
if (theform.touser.value=="" || theform.message.value=="" || theform.title.value=="") {
alert("Bitte füll das Empfänger, Betreff und Nachricht Feld aus.");
return false; }
if (pmmaxchars != 0) {
if (theform.message.value.length > (pmmaxchars/2)) {
alert("Deine Nachricht ist zu lang.\n\nKürze Deine Nachricht auf "+(pmmaxchars/2)+" Zeichen.\nDeine Nachricht ist "+theform.message.value.length+" Zeichen lang.");
return false; }
else { return true; }
} else { return true; }
}
function checklength(theform) {
if (pmmaxchars != 0) { message = "\nDie maximale Nachrichtenlänge beträgt "+(pmmaxchars/2)+" Zeichen."; }
else { message = ""; }
alert("Deine Nachricht ist "+theform.message.value.length+" Zeichen lang."+message);
}
//-->


I checked this on our board and the setting we have is 5000 characters. But in the PM input mask it says only 2500 are allowed.

Whas up wit dat?

Scott

[Chen]

This is what I got:
<script language="javascript">
<!--
var pmmaxchars = $pmmaxchars;
function validate(theform) {
if (theform.message.value=="" || theform.title.value=="") {
alert("Please complete both the subject and message fields.");
return false; }
if (pmmaxchars != 0) {
if (theform.message.value.length > $pmmaxchars) {
alert("Your message is too long.\n\nReduce your message to $pmmaxchars characters.\nIt is currently "+theform.message.value.length+" characters long.");
return false; }
else { return true; }
} else { return true; }
}
function checklength(theform) {
if (pmmaxchars != 0) { message = "\nThe maximum permitted length is $pmmaxchars characters."; }
else { message = ""; }
alert("Your message is "+theform.message.value.length+" characters long."+message);
}
//-->
</script>
Maybe someone changed it when he translated it?

[Chen]

Oh, found it.
It's in priv_forwardmultiple template, not priv_sendprivmsg.

[Pogo]

It is still in there (priv_forwardmultiple)....why?

[Chen]

No idea... moving to bugs.

[Kier]

It's there by design, to stop people sending massive PMs to loads of people.

If you don't like it, it's just a case of altering that javascript in the template :)

[s.molinari]

Originally posted by Kier
It's there by design, to stop people sending massive PMs to loads of people.

If you don't like it, it's just a case of altering that javascript in the template :)

Uh....really......uh honestly, that makes absolutely no sense what so ever. It's not that I don't like it (it just doesn't make sense to me) but rather the customer/s doesn't/don't like it. They set their max PM characters to, let say, 2000. But when they want to forward something they can only forward a pm with 1000 characters?

Hmmmmmm..........

Scott

p.s. We try not to alter the original code.:) We just make it german!:D

[Chen]

I must agree with Scott, it makes no sense...

But if Kier says Kier knows. ;)