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littlegiant/silverstripe-admin-text-length
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SilverStripe Admin Text Length
==============================

[](#silverstripe-admin-text-length)

Add a text length hint to CMS fields.

[![Admin Text Length](https://github.com/littlegiant/silverstripe-admin-text-length/raw/master/images/admin-text-length.png)](https://github.com/littlegiant/silverstripe-admin-text-length/blob/master/images/admin-text-length.png)

[![Admin Text Length with a warning](https://github.com/littlegiant/silverstripe-admin-text-length/raw/master/images/admin-text-length-warning.png)](https://github.com/littlegiant/silverstripe-admin-text-length/blob/master/images/admin-text-length-warning.png)

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Installation via composer

```
$ composer require littlegiant/silverstripe-admin-text-length

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Call `->setLengthHint()` with the length required on any `TextField`.

```
TextField::create('LimitedLength', 'LimitedLength')->setLengthHint(100)
```

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

### Code guidelines

[](#code-guidelines)

This project follows the standards defined in:

- [PSR-0](https://github.com/php-fig/fig-standards/blob/master/accepted/PSR-0.md)
- [PSR-1](https://github.com/php-fig/fig-standards/blob/master/accepted/PSR-1-basic-coding-standard.md)
- [PSR-2](https://github.com/php-fig/fig-standards/blob/master/accepted/PSR-2-coding-style-guide.md)

###  Health Score

32

—

LowBetter than 69% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity20

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity66

Established project with proven stability

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~2 days

Total

4

Last Release

2920d ago

Major Versions

1.0.1 → 2.02018-06-26

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1953220?v=4)[Stevie Mayhew](/maintainers/stevie-mayhew)[@stevie-mayhew](https://github.com/stevie-mayhew)

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