How to limit words in textarea?

kilbey1

Hi all,

I'd like the amount of words a user enters in a textarea box to not be greater than 75. Can you help?

Thanks,
Eve

YappyDog

As far as I know, the only way to do it would be to setup some sort of javascript function to check the length after every keyclick and produce an error once 75 characters was exceeded.

kilbey1

On further research, there is a str_word_count function, but it's new, so it's not available on the PHP version installed here at work.

On the flip side, an example was posted using preg_split:
$wordcount = count( preg_split("/[\W]+/", $text) );

I'll play with this.