Limiting # characters in textarea

From	Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.php
Subject	Limiting # characters in textarea
Date	2013-08-10 16:54 -0400
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<ku699n$77d$1@speranza.aioe.org> (permalink)

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Hi all,

Win 7, XAMPP Local Server, PHP 5.3. Target; Online Submitted Forms for 
the general public:

I am trying to come up with a way to force a limit to the length of a 
textarea. It would be nice, but it's not a dealbreaker if it's not 
reasonable to do due to imposed limitations,  if a counter could display 
characters entered or characters left. Or even just stopping accepting 
digits when the limit is reached would also be acceptable. I'm pretty 
flexible; exact counts aren't even necessary if they're just ballpark 
numbers.

I discovered maxlength has been added to HTML 5 but many people aren't 
using HTML 5 compatibility yet.
    I've located several ways to make it happen that use javascript or 
JQuery, but javascript isn't allowed to be used in this case. I've done 
a fair amount of research without any real success, I'm afraid.

The limitation I want to impose is in addition the the "standard" ways 
of validating the textarea. I don't want to be victimized by a 
"character  bomb" or something similar that goes on for pages and pages, 
for instance.
Using only HTML or PHP or a combo of the two, might anyone here have a 
proven method for limiting the length of a textarea other than 
truncating it without the sender's knowledge?

Except for js and the like, I'm open to alternatives, of course. 
Although code is always nice, air code often suffices too.

Thanks in advance,

Twayne`

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Limiting # characters in textarea Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-08-10 16:54 -0400
  Re: Limiting # characters in textarea Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2013-08-10 17:11 -0600
    Re: Limiting # characters in textarea Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-08-10 19:23 -0400
      Re: Limiting # characters in textarea BootNic <bootnic.bounce@gmail.com> - 2013-08-10 21:57 -0400
  Re: Limiting # characters in textarea Norman Peelman <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> - 2013-08-10 19:23 -0400
    Re: Limiting # characters in textarea Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-08-12 13:43 -0400
      Re: Limiting # characters in textarea Norman Peelman <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> - 2013-08-12 18:13 -0400
  Re: Limiting # characters in textarea Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-08-10 19:36 -0400
  Re: Limiting # characters in textarea Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2013-08-10 20:52 -0400
    Re: Limiting # characters in textarea Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-08-12 13:48 -0400
  Re: Limiting # characters in textarea Allodoxaphobia <knock_yourself_out@example.net> - 2013-08-11 16:39 +0000

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