replace

[Anon]

Hi.

I am building a forum and I want to add som replace thing - if for instance an evil user adds several characters to mock up the design in a post- for instance a string of onehundred 'a'-s, the design will be broken - how could i stop this from happening?

[flipis]

You can use this:

Say you store the text in a variable named $text.

You can use strlen($text) to see how many chars long does this entry have. Then you can use the substr() function to cut the string.

Example:

$text = "I'm a veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery bad user";

echo substr($text,0,20);

This would print only the 20 first characters in the string.

fLIPIS

[Anon]

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.wordwrap.php