function countCharacterNoCK($contentVar, $maximumChars){
$countThisString = strip_tags($contentVar);
$umlaute = Array("/ä/","/ö/","/ü/","/Ä/","/Ö/","/Ü/","/ß/");
$replace = Array("a","o","u","A","O","U","s");
$countThisString1 = preg_replace($umlaute, $replace, $countThisString);
$lenght = mb_strlen(html_entity_decode($countThisString1, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'));
if($lenght < $maximumChars+1){
return TRUE;
}else{
return $lenght;
}
}
This function doesn´t work as expected. Problem is: I´ve got a <textarea>
, in which i can Press Enter.
<textarea name="testvalue">
12345 1234
1234512345
</textarea>
if i call my function $test = countCharacterNoCK($_POST['testvalue'], 20);
it´ll return "22".
How to solve this? I´ve tried it with strip_tags
but it didn´t solve my problem...I want the function to count like MS Office (Word), but can´t get this solved...any tipps?
i guess that it is counting the invisible character of new lines '\n'.
you should try trim first that instead
$temporarystring =trim($countThisString1);
$lenght = mb_strlen(html_entity_decode($temporarystring, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'));