change the signature display

[Herb]

I noticed that the user signature gets stored in the post itself when a post is made.. This means anyone who adds a signature to their profile after making posts, only see it in new posts added and not existing posts..

Why not dump the signature below the post when displaying the posts? you already are accessing the user fields to display info for the icons.. making the signature a variable during the display process and calling that variable will display the signature..

you wouldn't need to make a choice either at post time, since you already decide to display it in your profile by filling the option out?

Food for thought..

[John]

I don't think it does. Edit your post, and you will see no signature in the post.

John

[Richard Tafoya]

Any thoughts on an optional character limit for signatures? Some of the younger folks on my current board have taken to inserting huge chunks of dialogue into their signatures, which can be quite annoying.

[Martin]

I wish HTML would allow a character limit on textarea like there is on textfield...

The only way I know to do it is to build in a routine to chop off the sig if it has over "x" characters. I'm afraid I'm skilled enough for this yet...

[Brian]

Try this: http://javascript.internet.com/forms/limit-textarea.html

[Edited by Brian on 04-29-2000 at 08:38 PM]

[Freddie Bingham]

Well I just added a signature and I noticed my pre-signature posts DO NOT show a signature. This is standard ubb/fusetalk behavior and needs to at least be an option for vBulletin.

[werehere]

I am not sure I understand. When I update, or add a signature on my VB, it updates all posts instantly. Also the UBB does not do this automatically, it requires an update of threads for it to actually update signatures. Did I miss something?:)

[Freddie Bingham]

Well if you do a search for my posts (nice feature) you will see most don't have signatures.

[werehere]

Only on this beta board here? Or on your own VB forum as well?

[Freddie Bingham]

BOTH!

[WebStyles]

Rangersfan... You probably didn't have the Show Signature option checked, if you had, it would have updated your signature.


Originally posted by werehere
I am not sure I understand. When I update, or add a signature on my VB, it updates all posts instantly. Also the UBB does not do this automatically, it requires an update of threads for it to actually update signatures. Did I miss something?

Just for the record, signatures don't update at all on the UBB since they're just appened to end of a persons post, updating threads will not change this. :)

[werehere]

I forgot about that:D

[Freddie Bingham]

hrmm that is a problem that needs to be looked into then I suppose as you get into some nasty rules.

Did a user really not want a signature (for any given message) or is it not set simply because they never had a signature.

I assume if you have no signature it defaults to a no selection on the Show Signature checkbox. I guess I can try to force a selection in the post templates.

Also I wish after I get done editing my profile it would take me back to where I was, not to the forum main page :(

[Freddie Bingham]

It appears there are issues with signatures on this board (I haven't tested mine) but I deleted my signature and if you look up you will see that every post I made with a signature posts a break line. So those posts have the "show signature" bit set and so they are showing the break and then a blank field. Maybe a check needs to be added that will no put the <br> if the signature field is empty...

[Edited by rangersfan on 05-26-2000 at 10:58 PM]

[Freddie Bingham]

See this annoying "space" at the bottom that all my posts have now. What is that - my signature is currently blank.