search

lassik / phpbb-ext-telegramnotifications

Notify on Telegram whenever someone posts on phpBB
GNU General Public License v2.0
11 stars 7 forks source link

Adjustable numbers of characters #3

Open jan-2017 opened 6 years ago

jan-2017 commented 6 years ago

I would be glad if the number of characters were adjustable, which should be displayed by the notification in telegram.bye Jan

lassik commented 6 years ago

This would be easy to add, but it would be even better if we could agree on an optimal number of characters for everybody :)

jan-2017 commented 6 years ago

I have now found this setting to adjust the number. Default setting was 200 characters. But there are no notification lines displayed in the Messanger if, for example, a quote is too long. The message after the quote will probably not be shown. The user wants to read the message and not the quote content. My suggestion would be to shorten the citation length and to show only a certain number of the beginning and end of the quote.Then there is more space for the actual message.

lassik commented 6 years ago

I agree. I tried to remove the bbcode (the [quote] and other such stuff) to leave only the plain text. I used https://wiki.phpbb.com/Function.strip_bbcode but could not get it to work easily - it removed all of the message text, leaving an empty message :) If you know how to do it (without writing our own bbcode parser or using regexps) please let me know.

The notifications about quoted messages definitely look weird right now and it would be great to have them fixed.