* Name: count_characteres
* Purpose: count the number of characters in a text * @link http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/language.modifier.count.characters.php * count_characters (Smarty online manual) * @author Monte Ohrt * @param string $string input string * @param boolean $include_spaces include whitespace in the character count * @return integer number of characters */ function smarty_modifier_count_characters($string, $include_spaces = false) { if ($include_spaces) return(strlen($string)); return preg_match_all("/[^\s]/",$string, $match); } ?>