wordcount.pl

# Copyright (C) 2005  Robin V. Stacey (robin@greywulf.net)
#
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# This module adds a wordcount to the bottom of edit boxes. The javascript code is munged from
# Richard Livsey's Textarea Tools page: http://livsey.org/experiments/textareatools/
# Though I've stripped it down to it's barest necessities


$ModulesDescription .= '<p>$Id: wordcount.pl,v 0.2 2004/11/07 13:35:00 as Exp $</p>';
push(@MyInitVariables, \&WordcountAddScript);

sub WordcountAddScript {
	$HtmlHeaders .= "<script type='text/javascript'>
	function addEvent(obj, evType, fn) {
		if (obj.addEventListener) {
			obj.addEventListener(evType, fn, true);
			return true;
		} else if (obj.attachEvent) {
			var r = obj.attachEvent('on'+evType, fn);
			return r;
		} else { return false; }
	}

	addEvent(window, 'load', function() {
		document.getElementById('textWordCount').innerHTML = numWords(document.getElementById('text').value);
		document.getElementById('text').onkeyup = function() {
			document.getElementById('textWordCount').innerHTML = numWords(document.getElementById('text').value);
		}
	});

	function numWords(string) {
		string = string + ' ';
		string = string.replace(/^[^A-Za-z0-9]+/gi, '');
		string = string.replace(/[^A-Za-z0-9]+/gi, ' ');
		var items = string.split(' ');
		return items.length -1;
	}
	</script>";
}

$EditNote = "Words: <span id='textWordCount'></span>" . $EditNote;