* 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 * @param boolean include whitespace in the character count * @return integer */ function tpl_modifier_count_characters($string, $include_spaces = false) { if ($include_spaces) { return(strlen($string)); } return preg_match_all("/[^\s]/",$string, $match); } ?>