char limited in post?

[Nam]

How can I set the limited char in the post. For example, I want to set at least 20 characters in the post to prevent some members who racing post by just posting "yes", "hehe"... words like that which are meaningess and annoying. thanks,

[tubedogg]

Currently that's not possible. You may wish to visit http://www.vbulletin.org/ to discuss hacking in a solution.

[T´Pau]

To set a minimum character limit into the users post, just open newpost.php and newthread.php

find:

if (strlen($message)>$postmaxchars and $postmaxchars!=0) {
    eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate("error_tooshort")."\");");
  }

directly after that, insert the following:

} if (strlen($message)<20) {
    eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate("error_tooshort")."\");");
  }

Then go to your Admin cp and create a new Template called error_tooshort
and insert:

Your Message is too short. 
Please write at least 20 characters.

You are done. Change the minimum characters (20) to your needs.

[tubedogg]

T'Pau, while I'm sure Nam appreciates your help, we request that hacking not be discussed here but rather at www.vbulletin.org . Thank you.

[Amasov]

Hey tubedogg.

It's rather a simple modification. Everybody could imagine that this is a simple variable definition.

It's not a "hack" so called. Please!

I may understand your war against piracy, but this is not an delivery for those people. It's just a help.

Regards,
Chris.

[tubedogg]

It actually has nothing to with piracy. Even if we didn't have a piracy problem we still want all code hacks posted at vbulletin.org - that has been the policy since vbulletin.org opened, driven purely by the fact that we do not support hacked boards here.

We call any type of code modification 'hacking' for simplicity's sake. In this case he is adding an extra loop to the code, which is certainly more than a simple variable.

[Amasov]

Understood.

[Nam]

T ´Pau, I do really appreciate that, it has been a long time. I've posted request in vB.org but nobody did it for me. I think there is no hack like that in vB.org even until now. Again, thanks very much.

[Chen]

I think there is a hack actually, that allows you to set a lower limit for posts length.