Form Validation

[D_tunisia]

Is it possible to do this simple form validtion in PHP?

I want to do something along the lines of:

if (charaters < 50) {
Not enough chars
}
Enough chars
}

I'm sure this is really simple but all the ways I've found of doing it so far involve JavaScript and I don't want to use JS unless it is really necessary.

Thanks!

[onion2k]

[man]strlen/man is you friend.