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plato-creative/silverstripe-fieldcounter
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Adds a counter to defined fields to show remaining characters

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Silverstripe FieldCounter
=========================

[](#silverstripe-fieldcounter)

Shows a field counter on specified fields in the SilverStripe CMS

### Usage

[](#usage)

To add the field counter to a Silverstripe field in the CMS you need to add:

```
TextField::('myfield')->setAttribute('data-fieldcounter', 140);
```

If you require different limits change the 140. Note: Adding this to a TextareaField prevents new lines.

If you want to prevent more text than your limit, use the built in HTML attribute `maxlength` e.g.

```
TextField::('myfield')->setAttribute('maxlength', 140);
```

### Install

[](#install)

SilverStripe 3

`$ composer require plato-creative/silverstripe-fieldcounter:1.*`

SilverStripe 4

`$ composer require plato-creative/silverstripe-fieldcounter:2.*`

### Documentation

[](#documentation)

See [Docs](https://github.com/PlatoCreative/silverstripe-fieldcounter/blob/master/docs/en)

###  Health Score

37

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LowBetter than 83% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity31

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity70

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 93.3% of commits — single point of failure

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 ~11 days

Recently: every ~17 days

Total

10

Last Release

3308d ago

Major Versions

v1.0.1 → 2.0.02017-01-20

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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