Similar module: Could this be merged into maxlength module?

Yes it could. From a user perspective its quite similar.

But the code is very different, as maxlength is only targetting the Body field, and cck_wordcount only CCK fields. (and one counts characters, the other words, but that is minor)

For now, I would like to keep the modules separated (though I might steal/borrow/copy some tricks from maxlength), but will keep merging in the back of my mind.

I think i agree. My drush had not updated to the new beta, so i missed the new functionality. Having done this module was a nice learning experience, going for the patch in maxlength will be too.

Have been looking for this a long time, thank you!

I was wondering, it it possible that it counts characters instead of words? Users will figure out to add all in one word ie this-is-a-word and trying to restrict the limit.

Maxlength has that capability, but not this beautiful javascript :)

It's behind the scenes. Actually, maxlength does this more advanced. They render the field + javascript + text server-side. This way, maxlength also works together with editablefields http://drupal.org/project/editablefields Which is what we are trying to achieve.

We need this in the coming weeks, so if you are a bit patient, we'll release updates either here or in maxlength.

Please do it on max-length - there is a thread already about adding this feature (http://drupal.org/node/266759) which has patches in it waiting to be tested / improved.

a_c_m

Old post, but just for info: Maxlength now does CCK, etc.