[Forum] Word Count by Post or by Forum

[swaswj]

I'm currently working on putting together a forum with some writing groups on it. One thing I'd like is to have a wordcount function within vBulletin -- meaning if a user posts a 1,200 word story, then the post will actually say 1,200 words. Up till now, users have been using 3rd-party programs to get the wordcount and type it in before posting.

It seems like this would be a simpler feature, but I don't find it built in and I have yet to find any mods or add-ons that do so. Is there a feature like this already, and if so, how would I go about adding it in? If not, how difficult would it be to create?

Another thing I'm curious about is, assuming it's possible to count words in a post, would it be possible to count a user's words by thread, or even by forum? Just to give a generic example, let's say there are two sub-forums, one for Poetry, one for Short Stories. I'd like to be able to see if a user has 5,000 words' worth of Poetry and 10,000 words in Short Stories.

Thank you for any assistance with this.

[Lynne]

No there is no feature like this. I would think you could write a plugin to get the word count. Use the php function str_word_count. Depending on how you write your code (like if you store this number, or where your plugin is hooked, etc.), you may be able to get this for a thread or forum.