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Limit the length of a text string being entered into a database

Description

This can be used if you want to limit a string, for example if you want to limit the length of user inputted text that is being saved to a database.

The code

<?php



if (strlen($text) > "255") {



  exit("The text you entered is too long.");



}



?>

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