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 		3/24/2009 8:17:51 AM
PHPRunner General questions
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Hi

When I have a text area for a field, maybe a text or tinytext variable type, I would like to be able to show how many characters are left for input.

There has been one post about this over 2 years ago, but since then we have a different backend to the PHPR projects as we nw have XT instead of smarty.

Has anyone done this with some of the javascript apps around on the net?
Admin 3/24/2009

It works the same way in all versions of PHPRunner.
Pick any example of this on the web say this one: http://www.hscripts.com/scripts/JavaScript...acter-count.php

Add a new readonly field in Visual Editor to display the number of characters left.
Redefine textarea's onkeyup event handler to use supplied Javascript function that updates the counter.

<script>

document.editform.textareafield_value.onkeyup=function() { ... };

</script>


This should be it.
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 		thesofa author 3/25/2009

It works the same way in all versions of PHPRunner.

Pick any example of this on the web say this one: http://www.hscripts.com/scripts/JavaScript...acter-count.php

Add a new readonly field in Visual Editor to display the number of characters left.
Redefine textarea's onkeyup event handler to use supplied Javascript function that updates the counter.

<script>

document.editform.textareafield_value.onkeyup=function() { ... };

</script>


This should be it.



As usual, I only gave you half of the info, I should have pointed out that I want do do this in a text area in Inline Edit, where there may be several of these boxes open in different records, so how do I do it, has anyone got a working sample for me to blag please?
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 		acpan 3/30/2009

Hi, try this link, here, another approach see if it helps.
Admin 3/30/2009

acpan,
thank you for sharing!
I moved that post to 'Tips and tricks' section so others can find it easily.