max characters

[Jan]

Hi, this is the security option, e.g. against spam. It is a security count of characters, so the database will be not overloaded, you should set here some value which will not overload your database

Jan

[jojo1]

Hi,

thank you for the great extension!

I read about max. characters and the reason because of spam and database.
But when users enter the content field and use more characters than set, they don't know. Only part of their post will be left.
Is it possible to add a 'count down' which tells how much characters are left when they fill in the guestbook?

Best regards

[Jan]

Hi, in fact this is very difficult as the max characters is really the last security instance for administrator against some malicious text - it includes all the characters user cannot see (html code, etc) so this can be confusing for user - as if he write: "ABC" then it can have e.g. 20 characters (<strong>ABC</strong>). This is really a security feature for administrator not an info for user.

Jan