Number of characters

[imagined]

I'm making this form and the validation. I want to know how many characters the user entered on Album Name and Album Description.

How can I get the number of characters on variables $albumName and $albumDescription?

I want to keep the Album Name at less than 255 characters and the Album Description at less than 500 characters.

Thanks :tb:

[Digitalosophy]

can you not just limit the amount of chars in the textbox?