Extended Signature Limits

[KarateKid]

in some of my threads I get an error: Warnung: parse_url(http:////http://www.kampfkunst-board.info/forum/394557-post15.html):): Unable to parse url in /includes/class_bbcode.php(149) : eval()'d code (Zeile 38)

http://www.kampfkunst-board.info/forum/f12/ju-jutsu-wing-tsun-35312/

When I deactivate the extended signature limits hack, it works fine...

[Andreas]

This is a known problem and can be fixed by making sure that only valid URLs get posted.

[KarateKid]

This is a known problem and can be fixed by making sure that only valid URLs get posted.

what do you mean with valid urls, please? What is a valid/invalid url? And how can invalid urls occur such errors? I mean, the hack should be resistant to "invalid urls".

[Andreas]

http://http//www.kampfkunst-board.info/forum/394557-post15.html is an invalid URL for example.

I am afraid, but there is no way to avoid this error.

[adalren]

Look for the line with parse_url and change it to $url = @parse_url($rightlink);

It keeps the warnings from popping up when a noobie posts a broken link.

[Andreas]

Yes, it supresses the warnings. But as said, there is no way to avoid them.

[KarateKid]

http://http//www.kampfkunst-board.info/forum/394557-post15.html is an invalid URL for example.

I am afraid, but there is no way to avoid this error.

what a pity...seemed to be a usefull hack for my board...so no use with SEO urls.

[Andreas]

As said, you can supress the error by putting @ in front of parse_url, so you won't see it.
Or you can disable the one Plugin (you will lose the ability to check for external links).

I think i'll update the ZIP as this complaint comes up quite often.

[Virtuosofriend]

do you think that you could add to the hack my little request?

[Andreas]

Which request?

[Virtuosofriend]

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=814655&postcount=244" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showp...&postcount=244</a>

[Jasiu]

Hey,

I must say I love this Mod but I doesn't work right for me. I assigned all my groups to allow 450w*300h but when I tested by adding 5 images (300*20) it said my sig was too large. So I first thought I had them all in one line, I then hit enter between each image to drop the image down to the next line, but the error still says my sig is too larger. Do you guys think this is a bug in the program or an install problem? Also, I followed the instruction in the zip file.

vB version: 3.5.1

[benFF]

Hey,

I must say I love this Mod but I doesn't work right for me. I assigned all my groups to allow 450w*300h but when I tested by adding 5 images (300*20) it said my sig was too large. So I first thought I had them all in one line, I then hit enter between each image to drop the image down to the next line, but the error still says my sig is too larger. Do you guys think this is a bug in the program or an install problem? Also, I followed the instruction in the zip file.

vB version: 3.5.1

I think it's the way it calculates the size:
300 x 5 = 1500
20 x 5 = 100

So your image size was 1500x100...

[Andreas]

As pointed out, the "accumulated size" is 1500 x 100, which is over the limit.
Detecting how the images are positioned and calculating the size based on this would be a lot more complicated.

[Snake]

Andreas, I have noticed something. Don't you suppose the text "Posting Rules" has to be renamed to "Signature Rules"?

[Andreas]

It is "Posting Rules" everywhere: in posts, signatures, usernotes, etc.

[Snake]

You're right. It's supposed to say "Signature Rules" in signatures, not Posting Rules. Know what I mean? :p

[Andreas]

No, I don't understand what you mean.
It is supposed to say Posting Rules.

[bplinson]

Installed. Works great so far.

[ggiersdorf]

I installed this and I see the options in the Usergroups but I set the max size to 300x100 but soem onf the images I see now are over that 400x300 etc... how do I fix that??

[theArchitect]

How should this hack manage images?

I have set it so that users can't have images in their posts unless part of a specific user group. But when I log-on to the forum under my test account (which should not be allowed to use images) I can enter the url for an image, but instead of the image being displayed (as normal) it just shows the url of the image.

I had expected it would give a similar error to the one that appears if a user tries to use more lines than they are allowed.

[Andreas]

That is the expected behaviour. It's the same thing that would happen if you did not have this Hack installed and disabled [IMG] for Signatures.

Btw: How exactly did you disable images?

[theArchitect]

That is the expected behaviour. It's the same thing that would happen if you did not have this Hack installed and disabled [IMG] for Signatures.

Btw: How exactly did you disable images?

I simply had 0 in the various image option boxes, such as size, width etc.

[Dave Rosteck]

I have an unusual problem here. I followed the instructions and every time I test this hack out via 'Edit Signature' in 'UserCP', the hack doesn't do anything. No errors no nothing...

Thanks in advance for the help.

[bplinson]

What is the query that will clear all signatures from the vb3_usertextfield table?

[bplinson]

Does anyone have the query that will drop the data currently in the signature field of the vb2_usertextfield table?

[ludachris]

Is there a way to prevent users from entering URL's and having them be automaticaly parsed (in their signature)? I've disallowed linking to external URL's. I have HTML in sigs turned off. I disallow the URL bbcode tag. Yet, if I enter a URL in the signature, it is parsed and shows up as a hyperlink in the post. Am I missing a setting?

It's automatically throwing in the URL bbcode, which is supposed to be disabled. Yet, it parses it anyway if you type in a raw URL.

[bplinson]

Really could use sme help on a query to remove the signature from all my users. Anyone have the syntax?

[theArchitect]

Really could use sme help on a query to remove the signature from all my users. Anyone have the syntax?

Sorry. I would help if I could.

Oh Master Coders?

[argash]

I do not seem to get the box listing what is allowable
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=34109
it should look like that but i just have the standard vb permissions box

[argash]

anyone?

[version2]

When I try to upload the bitfield xml I get a "Invalid File Specified"

[Oblivion Knight]

Really could use sme help on a query to remove the signature from all my users. Anyone have the syntax?UPDATE p_usertextfield SET signature = '';Replace p with your table prefix. If you don't use one, remove p_ completely.

[monktbd]

On our site this doesnt seem to work with images stored in the DB as attachments.
It works perfect for external images within the [ img ] tags.
Everything else (counting images, text size,..) works perfect as well.

Does getimagesize return nothing for attachment images?
At least removing the @ in front of the call didnt change or show anything.

Any clues?

[NineToez]

Works awesome on my page (vB 3.5.1)!! Thanks!!

[bplinson]

Working great on www.xlforum.net . The 4600+ members were kinda freaked out for awhile but they understand the reasons behind the restrictions and are happy about them now.

[EasyTarget]

does this require allow_url_fopen to be on/enabled and/or does it support cURL?
(or does it not even use either of those the the image info?)

reason I ask is because my host has the fopen disabled.

[Andreas]

allow_url_fopen is required.

[EasyTarget]

dangit :p

any possibility of adding cURL support?

and if the fopen is disabled do I lose all functionality?

[Andreas]

No cURL support ... too lazy and not required (for me).
image checks won't work, except that it's fine

[monktbd]

On our site this doesnt seem to work with images stored in the DB as attachments.
It works perfect for external images within the [ img ] tags.
Everything else (counting images, text size,..) works perfect as well.

Does getimagesize return nothing for attachment images?
At least removing the @ in front of the call didnt change or show anything.

Any clues?

Some more information:

It doesn't work on the test site which runs 3.5.1 in combination with VB Drupal.
It checks attachments from the live site (which is still on a 3.0.x) correctly.

Any settings in VB that i maybe missed to set?

[dutchbb]

I have the 3.5.1 bug when i try to edit usergroups

The bitfield_siglimits.XML gives me this error when I try to upload it:

"Invalid File Specified"

So had to disable this hack :(

[Andreas]

Who told you to import a bitfield XML?

[dutchbb]

someone at vbulletin

so, what to do with this?

please use the attached bitfield XML file.

[Andreas]

Upload it to includes/xml - that's it.

[dutchbb]

perfect thank you

[007]

This doesn't seem to stop people from posting links to outside sites, even if the option is set to no for their usergroup. I'm using the latest version too with no luck. Is it working for everybody else?

[Andreas]

It should work. Did you difine which domains should be considered internal?

[007]

Yes I did, but I just realised what the problem was.

[url]google.com[*/url] still works, but not [url]www.google.com[*/url]

Neither one should work, right?

[Andreas]

What did you put as internal?

[007]

(domain).com

And the domain was not google either. :-)

[url]http://google.com[*/url] doesn't work either, which is good, but if they just enter google.com, it works and converts it to a link.

[Andreas]

Replace


// Check if we have an external URL
if (!($permissions['custompermissions'] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_custompermissions['canuseexturlsinsig']))
{
$myparser->parse(convert_url_to_bbcode(strip_bbcode($signatur e)), 0);


with

// Check if we have an external URL
if (!($permissions['custompermissions'] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_custompermissions['canuseexturlsinsig']))
{
$myparser->parse(convert_url_to_bbcode($signature), 0);


and check if this works.

[007]

Nice, that works. Thanks! :)

Any way to make it work for text urls too? You know, if they just type domain.com without URL tags. So people can't even mention outside domains in their sig?

[Andreas]

No. How should the script know if blah.bla is a domain?

[007]

That's a good point. Anyway, at least the outside link setting works perfectly now. Thanks for the help. This hack is extremely useful. :)

[Andreas]

Example Signautre that does fail? Which limits are set?

[Andreas]

The image is 125 (w) x 93 (h), it is used two times.

Worst case: Each image is displayed in one row, eg. total dimensions are 125 (w) x 186 (h), which is over your defined limit of 500 x 100.

[Andreas]

Yes, as you don't have any control about how images are actually being positioned/displayed both worst case scenarios are being considered - which is all images in one line, or all images in one row.

If you have a better idea, let me know :)

I thought about calculating the max. space taken, but that won't work too well, if you define 100x500 (=5000 pixel) one could use a 1x5000 iamge then ...

[AWI]

Been looking for something like this, just installed on 3.5.2 and no probs!

[gonkowonko]

i have just installed this mod and want to limit the members to only 4 lines within their signature, this works but the error message which should tell them that the max lines should be 4 or less i get this

1.Your signature can not be longer than $vboptions[maxsiglines] lines

anyone know how i can change this?? the error message for the font size reads correct just not for the max lines...

[Andreas]

Such a phrase is not being used by this Hack.

[gonkowonko]

done now had a duplicate phrase called the same thing

[monktbd]

Checking the image size for attachment from the 3.5.2 still doesn't work on the beta site.
see also :
this post (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=826894&postcount=284) and this (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=834342&postcount=291).


getimagesize() fails for attachments.
It doesn't return anything (or more specific it won't pass the ($imginfo = getimagesize($sig) ) if condition.
It doesn't fail for attachments of the live site though (used on the beta site).
parsing of the URLs is fine, so $sig contains the correct URL for the images/attachments.

Both sites are on the same server, on different subdomains.
Has anyone any clues whether this can be a vbulletin issue (wrong settings somewhere) or a server setup problem?

[EasyTarget]

sounds like you're in my boat, your host turns off the allow_url_fopen function for security reasons and supports cURL instead.

vBulletin has said they plan on integrating cURL in the future and Andreas has said this issue doesn't effect him so he doesn't plan on supporting cURL.

Here's a message about it from my webhost. (dreamhost)
If you are currently using this (allow_url_fopen) functionality in your PHP code, there is a more powerful and flexible option available. PHP provides excellent support for curl library and its associated functions.

One of our own users has written a short article describing how it is
used and that can be found
here:
http://blog.unitedheroes.net/archives/p/1630/

The official PHP documentation for it is here:
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php

This change will significantly improve the security of PHP-based applications running on our servers

[mkdevo]

so does this not work with existing sigs, only when modifying?

[Andreas]

This change will significantly improve the security of PHP-based applications running on our servers
That's nonsense ;)
Future PHP versions will not support the current behaviour of allow_url_fopen due to its misunderstanding by most webhosts.

[EasyTarget]

well the blog provided some good examples of how its a security risk, add how cURL has some better functions.

here's the last postYou?re quite right that (used properly) fopen isn?t a security risk. It simply takes data and puts controls on it to allow you to perform various stream related functions, no execution required.

Where it gets complicated is not with the individual fopen call, but the method that PHP uses to implement that function. Internally PHP has some very clever routines that treat any data stream the same way. The problem is that in order to do this, all streams have to behave in the same way. This means that any stream based function has to behave according to that model.

Where this gets really ugly is the fact that internally, the operations to read a data stream for include() are fundementally the same as the operations for reading a data stream for fopen(). One is benign, the other decidedly not.

The simplest, fastest, and most effective fix is to disallow URLs from behaving like streams. While this does inconvenience clueful people who wish to use fopen() functions for urls, it also means that Joe Notanerd won?t accidentally become a proxy for a cross site scripting attack because he never secured his fpassthru() calls.

The curl functions are there pretty much to isolate the web stream functions from normal file operations, plus, they?ve got a number of features that make them more appealing than standard file operations, and that?s to be expected. The mediums are not the same.

[monktbd]

sounds like you're in my boat, your host turns off the allow_url_fopen function for security reasons and supports cURL instead.

vBulletin has said they plan on integrating cURL in the future and Andreas has said this issue doesn't effect him so he doesn't plan on supporting cURL.

Here's a message about it from my webhost. (dreamhost)

Thanks but that is not the problem.

allow_url_fopen is turned on, since it works with checking attachments from a VB 3.0.x install (=the current live site) but not for checking attachments for the 3.5.2 install where the sig image limiter is running on (= the current beta site).
Both installs use the same server on different subdomains.
Unless there is a switch/option somewhere in Apache/PHP/MySql that I missed both sites run on the same configuration.

[dvn]

I'm running 3.5.0 and am having trouble with people who were outside the limits *before* the hack was installed. in which case they aren't able to edit their signatures in such a way to be within the limits. my font limit is 14, they've got 16 in their sig, they aren't allowed to change the font size, instead getting a message 'your font is too large'.

is the hack incompatible with 3.5.0?

[PennylessZ28]

bitfield.xml dont' work

[Telegon80]

damnit mine isnt working either, the image limits can be bigger than what i specified. im done farting with it for tonight....

[nader]

how can i uninstall this hack?

[nader]

i get this error after remove this mode
### UPDATE QUERY GENERATED BY fetch_query_sql() ###
`title` = 'members',
`description` = '',
`usertitle` = '',
`opentag` = '<FONT color=\"996633\">',
`closetag` = '</FONT>',
`passwordexpires` = '0',
`passwordhistory` = '0',
`ispublicgroup` = '0',
`canoverride` = '0',
`custompermissions` = '0',
`maxsiglines` = '',
`maxsigfontsize` = '',
`maxsigimgsize` = '',
`maxsigimgwidth` = '',
`maxsigimgheight` = '',
`maxsigimages` = '',
`sigforbiddencodes` = '',
`forumpermissions` = '782591',
`attachlimit` = '5000000',
`pmquota` = '50',
`pmpermissions` = '0',
`pmsendmax` = '2',
`calendarpermissions` = '33',
`wolpermissions` = '1',
`adminpermissions` = '0',
`genericpermissions` = '203964103',
`genericoptions` = '12',
`profilepicmaxwidth` = '100',
`profilepicmaxheight` = '100',
`profilepicmaxsize` = '25000',
`avatarmaxwidth` = '50',
`avatarmaxheight` = '50',
`avatarmaxsize` = '20000'
WHERE usergroupid=14;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'maxsiglines' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054

[Andreas]

Uninstall it correctly.

[nader]

Uninstall it correctly

How????

[Pcparts]

Its not working for me. I am using vb v3.5.2


The signature font still shows the same size?

anyone managed to make it work under 3.5.2?

[vampireus]

I'm running vb 3.5.2. I test for myself and see that I can't use the codes in banned list. But still, there are members who are able to put banned codes in their signature? Really have no idea. It is a bug?

[AquilaEagle]

Thanks!

[gator777]

Everything installed nicely, but it does not function while using 3.5.2. Do you have a fix for this, or am I doing something wrong. It appears others are having the same issue.

I really like what you did with this hack, and I am real anxious to get this working properly.

Thanks in advance :)

Edited: Fixed my own problem. Deleted it, reinstalled it, and now it works on my 3.5.2 board. Nice hack and thanks a bunch for all your hard work. :)

[Sculli]

Awesome hack, installed!

Any chance future versions could detect and deny animated GIFs?

[Razz]

Awesome hack, installed!

Any chance future versions could detect and deny animated GIFs?

Is this not a usergroup option now?

[Sculli]

Is this not a usergroup option now?
It is for avatars, but not for sig images, afaik.

[Sculli]

Not entirely sure what's happening. I reset the sigs for everyone, set the sig limits to 550x250 and 65k, and still, a user has a 686x200 235k image in PNG format in his sig. What gives?

Edit: It seems like this is a problem with other file formats as well. The host is always photobucket. Guess there is a problem with that host?

Edit2: Oh man, this really irks me. I deleted all the sigs and had people redo them. Now it turns out that this only works for some, and not for others, which basically defeats the purpose. I mean if I have to manually edit sigs and send PMs to those who have oversized sigs, then there was really no point for me to put the burden of redoing sigs on all users. I realize this is not a bug in the extension. I just hope that my experience will serve others so that they will consider whether to delete everyones sig or not.

[djjeffa]

im running it on 3.5.2 and im set the size for regular users now it dont seem to be affecting curent signs should it?

[Lynch]

Sig width and height isn't really practical. It depends on the settings of the user viewing the post.I dont' understand why people say this sort of thing. Sig Width and height is very practical. It's no different than avatar width and height. If you don't put limits on it, people will use a half dozen images and some are just huge.

Yes, I understand that you can choose to turn sigs off if you don't want to view them, but why not have the option of setting a dimension and filesize limit? There are still people on dialup of which some I know get pretty irked having to wait for some a-hole's obnoxious sig to download.


JM2CW

[Sculli]

im running it on 3.5.2 and im set the size for regular users now it dont seem to be affecting curent signs should it?
No, read the earlier pages of this thread, current sigs are not affected.
Neither are new sigs in many cases when you allow external links.

[epic1]

3.5.3 user here.

Restricting sig limits is not working.

[Tri@de]

Someone has hard tested this on 3.5.3?

[IrPr]

Important: vBulletin 3.5.1

mmm but seems workin on 3.5.2 and doesnt work on 3.5.3

[Dave Rosteck]

Yes, unfortunately it doesn't work on 3.5.3. We need an update please!

[sas1911]

Fixed - Open bitfields_siglimits.xml change

<bitfields product="siglimits"> (or somethin like that)


To

<bitfields product="vbulletin">


At least it works on mine now and i run 3.5.3

[Andreas]

I don't see any reason why it should not work on 3.5.3

[Pcparts]

It works fine in 3.5.3 for me.

Maybe if it does not work, then you will need to re-upload all the files and add the product again and the set the usergroup permissios (basically a re-install)

[vtx1800]

Installed and working on 3.5.3

[Detomah]

I thought i'd wait until i'd had this installed a few days, so that my users and moderators could get used to it and so I could judge how well it works for me.

I love it, you've saved me a load of work. :)

My moderators like it, but say it's doing them out of a job.

My users hate it though, they're complaining that they can't sneak in a banner a few K over the limit or a few pixels over the limit, hoping nobody would notice. Hehehe... Jobs a good'un... :D

[Daracon]

Thanks for this hack!

*klicks install*

[Tri@de]

No way. Tested on vb 3.5.3 and with IMG users can make signatures with any restriction.
Maybe something i did not set?

[Andreas]

Either your permissions are not set correctly or allow_url_fopen is false

[Tri@de]

where i see the allow_url ?

Edit to add:

i set the limit in usergroup registered
only there. there's something else i have to modify?

[Tri@de]

I set:
Signature Image(s) Maximum Width (pixels) 10
Signature Image(s) Maximum Height (pixels) 10

and i still see my signature with an image of w 500 h 100

[sinoeu]

When importing the product-siglimits.xml, it shows "XML error: at line 277 not well-formed (invalid token)"

I am using a chinese version vbb 3.53, what should this error be?

[IrPr]

yet another awesome work from KirbyDe;)
Installed on 3.5.3 and all options work fine unless Link to Exnternal Websites
anyways ;) /me Clicks Install

[JulianD]

I installed this hack long time ago but I wasn't using it on my site. Finally today I started to use it along with some modifications of my own to allow users to display/hide the images on the signature.

This hack is great!

How difficult is to use the "link to external sites" feature also in images?... I mean, to restrict images only to the domains specified in the Internal URL field.

Is that possible?

[argash]

I do not seem to get the box listing what is allowable
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=34109
it should look like that but i just have the standard vb permissions box
I'm still having this issue.

[Dave Rosteck]

yes...but that was from the super moderator group. the admin group does not show that. only the right side does it show (minus all instances of the rules as a result of this exxtension.

the settings in the admin group stick when saved in the usergroup permissions page...but its like they dont apply to the group. all other usergroups function just fine.Turns out I was experiencing this problem as I was testing it in the admin usergroup. I would suggest adding that this hack is exempt for admins.

[Andreas]

Admins are not exempt.
If permissions don't show up in the rules box, then there are no limits.

[mido]

my version is 3.5.3 and it's working will , but there is a something

if a member already using an Forbidden BBCode , the plugin should disable this right ?

cause the effect is only for the coming actions not the previous actions

thnx for the plugin :)

[tendo]

I installed this and edited the usergroup permissions set max image width to 400 and it still lets me use big images. what did I do wrong? i uploaded bitfield_siglimits.xml to forum/includes/xml and installed product-siglimits.xml as a product. did i miss something? the directions in the text file are very brief for a newb like me. please help im sick of ultra wide sigs messing up the design


cheers for a great idea :)

p.s. im using 3.5.3

[tendo]

i know im probably jus being n00b and retardy but please help me :)

[argash]

Admins are not exempt.
If permissions don't show up in the rules box, then there are no limits.
I've set the limits. Im looking at them right now.

[tendo]

I have edited the permissions in every usergroup to 100x100 pixels and it will still let me use a massive pic in my sig.

I don't get it.....

[Andreas]

Then maybe allow_url_fopen is false and thus getimagesize() fails :)

[tendo]

Then maybe allow_url_fopen is false and thus getimagesize() fails :)

was that directed at me? *confused look*

i have this awesome script installed properly but it isn't restricting sizes! help pls i changed every single usergroup to 100x100 pixels

[Andreas]

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=886928&postcount=367" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showp...&postcount=367</a>

[tendo]

Ok Andreas Im sure you're busy so I'll keep this brief.

I set Allow Image Size Checking Failure to YES and tried both GD and Imagemajick6, neither worked.

Is there anything else I can try? Promoters on our board have the hugest sigs its gross.

[argash]

Upon further investigation it looks like secondary usergroup permissions are what is breaking this for me. If a users primary group is given permisions to use images but one of their secondary groups is not then they are not allowed. This seems odd. anyone have ideas?

[Andreas]

This is working as designed.
As 0 means unlimited, 0 overrides all other values.

[Mentch]

I am having a problem when I allow 2 images. I want to allow images at a max width and height of 480X175. I understand what it is doing by combining the width's and the height's of each of the images and telling the user they are using 2 images and they are larger than 480x175 but the problem I have with this is I want to be able to use 2 images and not add up the width's of those 2 images just check to make sure that neither 1 of them are larger than 480. And still check the combined height to make sure its not larger than 175.

Any way to modify the code to do this?

[Andreas]

Please read the previous posts where I explained why I did I the way I did it.

[Mentch]

Please read the previous posts where I explained why I did I the way I did it.
I am not asking why you did it the way you did it. I am simply asking a question on how I can modify what you have made to not combine the Width of the images, but to only check that any of the images are not greater than the set Width.

[Andreas]

;)
As I explained in previous posts, that won't work as expected.

[tendo]

Andreas this still isn't working for me. How do I diagnose if the image size checking function is even active on my server? I've tried both on/off imagemajick/gd

[Andreas]

This has nothing to do with GD or ImageMagick.

Check your phpinfo output for the setting of allow_url_fopen

[Aeolian]

This has nothing to do with GD or ImageMagick.

Check your phpinfo output for the setting of allow_url_fopen

Andreas .. gr8 addon.. i been looking for something like this for while now!!!
ok here is the new problem after limiting the signature..
users are using bigger fonts (size 8-10) in the limited no# of characters.

so now we need to some how limit the size of the font..

thanks

[Mentch]

Ok I figured out how to modify this for what I needed.

But now if I want to actually put a Zero in one of the spots to have it actually be a Zero and not unlimited how can I do that.

[Mentch]

Andreas .. gr8 addon.. i been looking for something like this for while now!!!
ok here is the new problem after limiting the signature..
users are using bigger fonts (size 8-10) in the limited no# of characters.

so now we need to some how limit the size of the font..

thanks
This plugin allready limits the size of the Font people can use. Check the settings for each usergroup.

[dazzlin]

Works great except one problem. I've set each usergroup to use no more than 4 lines. If I try to enter any more than 2 lines, it tells me "You may not use more than 4 lines in your signature." And yes, I know blank lines count as a line, so I made sure there were no blank lines. Literally, if I do this:

firstline
secondline
thirdline

it gives me the message that i cannot have more than 4 lines (and those blank lines in this example are only there for readability here, but don't exist in the actual sig).

[WNxWakko]

External URL linking for signatures is not blocking??

[Parham]

is this mod update sig that had problem :) ?

[tendo]

Check your phpinfo output for the setting of allow_url_fopen

Can anyone tell me what that means?

[dazzlin]

Works great except one problem. I've set each usergroup to use no more than 4 lines. If I try to enter any more than 2 lines, it tells me "You may not use more than 4 lines in your signature." And yes, I know blank lines count as a line, so I made sure there were no blank lines. Literally, if I do this:
firstline
secondline
thirdline
it gives me the message that i cannot have more than 4 lines (and those blank lines in this example are only there for readability here, but don't exist in the actual sig).

So, does no one have any advice for me on this?

[Andreas]

Which was the exact text that was falsely reported as being more than 4 lines?

[dazzlin]

Anything I try over 2 lines does it. But here's an example one below (If i take out the third line of Join us today!, it works fine:
You'll never shine if you don't glow
http://www.vistababble.com
Join us today!

[Andreas]

Works just fine for me:
http://www.vistababble.com/forums/members/kirby.html

[dazzlin]

Works just fine for me:
http://www.vistababble.com/forums/members/kirby.html

So I see. I've attached a screenshot of the error message I get with that same signature.

[Andreas]

That is WYSIWYG. Switch to Standard and make sure you really do not have more than 4 lines.
(Especially IE seems to add <br /> every now and then)

[dazzlin]

Yep, that was it! I imagine a lot of users might face the same problem, but at least now I'll know how to answer the question. Thanks.

[GoTTi]

does this work with img tags already used? say if i limit the imgs allowed to 3, users has 6 in there..will it alter his sig

[Skittles]

I have installed this hack, but it isn't working correctly.

My limits are set to 400w x 100h, 30kb, 1 image only.

If I try and link to a signature that is too wide or too tall, the script rejects the signature. If I try and link to more than one image, the script rejects the signature.

However it is not imposing the filesize restrictions properly. At the moment I am linking to a 130kb BMP file as my signature and the script accepts this.

However, if I link to the same large image twice, it will say that the combined size of the images is too large.

I am running the plugin on vb3.5.3 and my forum is at forum.generationnetwork.co.uk
Any ideas why it's not working?

[Webs007]

Is there an option to apply it it to certain usergroups?

[almqdad]

Hi

Does it work with 3.5.3

thanks

[tendo]

This has nothing to do with GD or ImageMagick.

Check your phpinfo output for the setting of allow_url_fopen

still confused on this :o

[tendo]

This has nothing to do with GD or ImageMagick.

Check your phpinfo output for the setting of allow_url_fopen

hate to be a bumper but i really need some clarification on what allow_url_fopen is. it's not in the vb3 manual. eeeek! someone had a 900px wide signature today :(

[ubblite]

This hack was working good until I installed vb3.5.4 & now it no longer works. I'm wondering if there will be an update for this nice mod anytime soon?

[nereidin]

Have 3.5.4 and It don't work - it's normal or I'm doing something wrong ?

[nereidin]

No one know? :(

[iturazvan]

This is great, just installed it :) .

[nereidin]

iturazvan - what version of vB you have ?

[Pagandream]

Yeah if it would work under 3.5.4 I would be happy ;)

[nereidin]

But no one want to answer :|

[ubblite]

As I mentioned before, it was working until I installed version 3.5.4. You guys do realize the last time this mod was updated is Nov 25th, '05 for vb 3.5.1, right?

[nereidin]

Is there any alternative mod ? Fully working with 3.5.4...

[tendo]

This has nothing to do with GD or ImageMagick.

Check your phpinfo output for the setting of allow_url_fopen

someone PLEASE tell me what this means hehe

[Pagandream]

Is there any alternative mod ? Fully working with 3.5.4...

I just install it on 3.5.4 and it works fine!

[Kihon Kata]

I just install it on 3.5.4 and it works fine!

Should I re-import the XML to get it to work aftermy upgrade to 3.5.4?

[nereidin]

I just install it on 3.5.4 and it works fine!

Thx, I try again and now work fine. :nervous:

[Pagandream]

Hm the activation e-mail seems not to work anymore when I enable this hack...

[Andreas]

It works with 3.5.4 as it did with previous versions.
And activation emails have absolutely nothing to do with sigs :)

[EasyTarget]

any chance of adding curl compatibility yet? :p

[Andreas]

Nope. I don't need this so it won't be added (I don't even allow images in sigs ... sigs should be 4x80 characters max ... usenet netiquette :))

[kira]

someone PLEASE tell me what this means hehe

I understand your frustration, tendo -- I don't know why you've been ignored here for so long. (Frankly, I'm having the same problem as you -- my image dimension limits aren't being properly restricted.)

Anyway, what Andreas is saying is that you need to check your server's phpinfo file, in particular the setting for "allow_url_fopen." To check this, go to your admin control panel and scroll down to the menu area's MAINTENANCE block. There's a link to check the phpinfo. Or you can go directly to the URL, which will be something like yoursite.com/forum/admincp/index.php?do=phpinfo. Do a search on the page for "allow_url_fopen." The options will be "ON" or "OFF." :)

Having said all this, I don't know if the setting is supposed to be ON or OFF for the sig limits to work. It appears that many hosts prefer to disable this setting for safety reasons.

Anyway, good luck, and I hope this helps!! And to Andreas, thank you very much for an interesting and useful addon. It isn't working 100% for me yet, but I'm still grateful to be able to use this for since at least it's working for text restrictions. (So far, I've had more problems with members going crazy w/text sigs than images.)

[Sculli]

Same here, thanks for writing the add-on, but it's not working quite often, which caused me to uninstall. I have "allow_url_fopen" ON, but a lot of times externally linked sig images by far exceed the cumulative dimensions. I posted earlier in this thread which image host seemed mostly affected.

[tendo]

KIRA THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE EXPLANATION! There is currently a war going on on my board to see who can post the hugest signature and its really getting out of control.

I went to that page and I see this:
allow_url_fopen On On

Is that the correct setting Andreas? Thank you all very much for your time.

[Schwarze Katze]

Things working just fine with me until the point of saving the signature.
It just doesn't do it. I try to save and the signature will be gone afterwards.

Any idea what's causing this?

Am using 3.5.4

Edit: Found the reason. Sig limit had been set to 0 in the vb options section. -_-'

[Andrew K]

Do you think you could add a control to change the max signature character limit per usergroup?

[Nathan2006]

Thank you Andreas

Just what I have been looking for ;)

Install

[drumsy]

I really wish there was a way to force this. Does anyone have any recommendations?

[Megareus Rex]

Is there any way to make it completly ignore values of zero? I have a LOT of secondary groups on my board, and I found I'll have to set ALL of them with values, otherwise it just uses their values when calculating the restrictions, and thus, no one has ANY restrictions.

Even a way to force it to only consider the primary group's permissions would be good.

EDIT: Nvm, I fixed it by setting the default values of those bitfields in the product xml to 1 instead of 0, then re-installing the product.

[Pathor]

Perfect work! :)

Should be standard!

Klick install! ;)

[akanevsky]

Perfect work! :)

Should be standard!

Klick install! ;)

Shouldn't be a standard as it currently is, but with some code imrovements - definitely.

[Pathor]

Shouldn't be a standard as it currently is, but with some code imrovements - definitely.

k! I agree! ;)

I have some suggestions, but I think they will never be implemented (board-smilies are not counted as images and so on).

[Snort_2005]

Andreas, I have this installed, but the image size restrictions just don't work. I'm using 3.5.4 and my max dimensions are not working.. I had a user post a 1024px wide image where my max was 400px. o_O What did I do wrong?

EDIT nvm. o.o

[Pathor]

Andreas has afaik a holiday trip. ;)
Probably another user can help you.

[carlosacgj]

it's the best.

[Megareus Rex]

I have a(nother) problem and a suggestion.

Suggestion: Make the font size limit work with vB font sizes. It took a lot of guesswork to figure out the point equivalent of size=1, 2, 3, etc.

Problem: I have the limit set to 16-point, but...users cannot, for some reason, use size=1. Any reason why? Its definitely not over the limit.

[dead7]

Superb hack. It does however remove the rel="nofollow" hack on signatures only. Any way to have this reapplied in this easily before i start manually hacking?

[dead7]

I think i've found one bug perhaps someone can try this on theirs.

If a user types in a signature and lets it word wrap, or uses return to make line breaks, the hack will work just fine for the restricted amount of lines allowed.. however.

I had one user do this

]center[line 1]/center[
]center[line 2]/center[
]center[line 3]/center[
]center[line 4]/center[
]center[line 5]/center[
]center[line 6]/center[

Now because each individual line is centered (i realize the tags above are wrong its just to show the example) it allows the signatures to go past their allowed # of lines limit.

If you were to center it all as one the hack still works fine the way the hack was intended to by restricting the signature by the number of lines allowed.
If anyone else can try this i'd appreciate it... otherwise everything about the hack works fine except for this individually centered text.

Thanks.

[home9000]

Nice one

Is it remove email address ?

[BJv1985]

Everything works find when it's 1 image but when a user tries to add a second image it counts the size limits for both images as 1?

[majorxp]

Is there any way to make it completly ignore values of zero? I have a LOT of secondary groups on my board, and I found I'll have to set ALL of them with values, otherwise it just uses their values when calculating the restrictions, and thus, no one has ANY restrictions.

Even a way to force it to only consider the primary group's permissions would be good.

EDIT: Nvm, I fixed it by setting the default values of those bitfields in the product xml to 1 instead of 0, then re-installing the product.


I think this answers my question I have been looking for in this thread.

As like the rest of VB, a setting of "0" means unlimited and not zero. Correct?

[tendo]

I've been subscribed to this thread for six months probably and I still can't get this extension to work. I am really fed up with the sigs on my board, anyone willing to help me out a bit? I'm available via email, aim, msn, hell--even phone if you're willing to spend a few minutes with me. I'm not getting any co-operation from my users, and I would really like to just LIMIT sizes on sigs.

Thank you very much for taking the time to read this,

-Tendo
www.seattlednb.com/forum

[tendo]

I understand your frustration, tendo -- I don't know why you've been ignored here for so long. (Frankly, I'm having the same problem as you -- my image dimension limits aren't being properly restricted.)

Anyway, what Andreas is saying is that you need to check your server's phpinfo file, in particular the setting for "allow_url_fopen." To check this, go to your admin control panel and scroll down to the menu area's MAINTENANCE block. There's a link to check the phpinfo. Or you can go directly to the URL, which will be something like yoursite.com/forum/admincp/index.php?do=phpinfo. Do a search on the page for "allow_url_fopen." The options will be "ON" or "OFF." :)

Having said all this, I don't know if the setting is supposed to be ON or OFF for the sig limits to work. It appears that many hosts prefer to disable this setting for safety reasons.

Anyway, good luck, and I hope this helps!! And to Andreas, thank you very much for an interesting and useful addon. It isn't working 100% for me yet, but I'm still grateful to be able to use this for since at least it's working for text restrictions. (So far, I've had more problems with members going crazy w/text sigs than images.)

My forum/admincp/index.php?do=phpinfo says "allow_url_fopen On On " is that the correct setting to limit image sizes in signatures?

[Cool Matty]

It works with 3.5.4 as it did with previous versions.
And activation emails have absolutely nothing to do with sigs :)

I don't see any options for the signature limits after installing this on 3.5.4. (And I looked in the Usergroups, all over the place)

Any ideas?

EDIT: Nevermind, I didn't notice that the bitfield file had failed to upload >:(

[bada_bing]

I am looking for this exact hack for my site but am seeing many complaints about things not working correctly.

I have few questions about this hack.

- Are the perameters per usergroup? Meaning can one usergroup have image size 300x150 and usergroup 2 have images size 350x200 ?

- Does this work with vb 3.5.3 ?

- Last but not lease is this hack going to be updated to fix some of the concerns posted by other users of this hack?

[Fianna]

"To define "internal URLs", go to ACP > vBulletin Options > vBulletin Options > Site Name / URL / Contact Details".

To define it, do I have to enter 'index.php?do=buildbitfields', in the box under Internal URLs?

[Zelos]

When I installed this mod, I had overwrite checked as "no". After installing it and setting siglimits, Im noticing users still have images in their sigs that surpass the set limits.

Was overwrite supposed to be checked as "yes"?

[Aurons Ghost]

A really nice hack, thanks, but I noticed that if I set the number of images to 0 (to disable) that the limits on size and dimensions no longer work. Is that supposed to happen? (sorry if this has already been asked)

[88mmFlaK]

Hmm. Running 3.5.4. Followed all the instructions in the readme 1) Upload bitfield-siglimits.xml, 2) Import product-siglimits.xml. Allow_url_fopen is on/on. Bitfield_siglimits.xml is in /includes/xml. Edited usergroups. Am also running the one sig per page hack. Can't get it to work in any way, shape, or form. :(

[sadecosefo]

Great Hack Kirby, just one question. Is there a way to do a check on signatures that were already entered and exceed the limits? I have thousands of users and a message letting them know their signature violates the rules would be good when first implimenting this.

Installed. Nice hack. The above would make it a great hack. ;)

[paul41598]

ya the max dimensions defintely dont work. This sucks

[tendo]

ya the max dimensions defintely dont work. This sucks


"This sucks" isn't very constructive, but I can empathize with your frustration. This should really be a standard feature of vB, because people really go overboard with signatures its like a pissing contest on seattlednb.

[Kirk Y]

Whenever a User tries to submit their signature, the page loads for a long time and then a 502 Bad Gateway error comes up.

This only happens on Users who've got Limits for the Signatures.

[Snake]

Thanks, reinstalled this on my forums once again. :)

[X Quiz]

Is this hake work with 3.6?

[cvn]

Great Mod! Thank you very much!
Clicked Install

[MorrisMcD]

3.6 has signature limits now.. But now by dimension :rolleyes:

Which setting will override which? I have many usergroups and if this hack will overwrite what is default by vb, I am not going to bother...

[paul41598]

Anyone willing to either rewrite this or fix some of the bugs in this for us 3.5 users? ;)

[Robbed]

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=124754&highlight=sig+limit" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showt...ight=sig+limit</a>

[dennisuello]

I installed this, but I need to not allow one of the usergroups to include any images. How can I do that?

[wssm]

it is not working on 3.5.4 !! .. usergoups doesn't have any place for me to enter 0 ! . and its not showing under the settings to control the images size! eventhough i installed everything like the readme.txt file says ! :bored: :bored:

[I, Brian]

Seems to conflict with the vb settings in vb 3.6.x

Shame, because it's a really good idea for a mod, but vb don't seem to have applied a limit to no. links.

[Domenico]

So this is not working on 3.6.2 ?

[hitmanuk2k]

I really need something to restrict sig size in vb 3.6. The built in options only seem to restrict the ones you upload, not the ones you include from an external source.

[tmod]

Does this mod prevent linked sigs from exceeding the size limit or is just for images that are uploaded to the site?

Tmod

[sadecosefo]

So this is not working on 3.6.2 ?

Or 3.6.3? :confused:

[johndanley]

Can this be added to vb3.6?

Thanks

[Raul7]

Thank you :)

[armagan]

Can this be added to vb3.6?

Thanks


thanks

[hitmanuk2k]

I really need something to restrict sig size in vb 3.6. The built in options only seem to restrict the ones you upload, not the ones you include from an external source.Anyone got anything for us?

[maxicep]

thanks

[Battle_Ring]

i cant figure this out

Images (max. Number/Width/Height/Filesize)

where is the max image size i cant find it

[Battle_Ring]

dont work on my 3.6.4

[bulbasnore]

Most of what this hack did is built into 3.6. Thanks Andreas, it was very helpful. Clicks uninstall after upgrade.

[Harley-Heaven]

Definitely DOES NOT work in 3.5.4

I have members who have included external URL's in their signatures and more than the single line of text.

If there are additional changes to be made, would someone please post a nice easy set of instructions to follow?

[giorgiotave]

Hi at all :)

Andreas in 3.6.4 don't work :)

I pay if you make one more option in 3.6.4:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=139632
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=139468

[Tralala]

Worked great for me in 3.5.x. Thanks, Andreas!

Most of what this hack did is built into 3.6.

But not all that it did is built into 3.6... for example, preventing some custom BBcodes. The built-in sig limits don't let you do that:

Note that custom BB codes cannot be controlled by any permission; you can only disable their use in signatures by disabling all BB codes in signatures.



This hack, which still works for me in 3.6.4 BTW, allows me to designate specifically which custom BBcodes (like [spoiler] and [media]) are not allowed in sigs. The buttons still appear in the toolbar, but if a user attempts to submit a sig with one of the "forbidden" custom BBcodes, they get an error message telling them why the sig is not allowed.

So, it is still useful, at least for me, in 3.6.x.

Thanks again, Andreas!

[john24]

I installed this thinking that it would do exactly what I wanted and it doesn't do it. Gutted. I am really in need for it. I need it so that I can control how many links can be placed in a signature per usergroup.

For example,

Usergroup 1: can have 1 live email address and 1 hyperlink
Usergroup 2: can have 1 live email address and 4 hyperlinks

Can this script be modified for that?

Also, what's the difference between the amount of lines that can be used in the sig and the one that is already used in the default vbulletin within the sig. They both do the same thing don't they?

[Dannyloski]

w00t! I had this when I had 3.5.4 and I loved it, now that I upgraded to 3.6.7 PL1 I thought it wouldnt work so I uninstalled it ... I searched for the Mods they have on 3.6 and nothing could compare the the ones this had to offer, so I reinstalled it and guess what? This works on 3.6.7 PL1 perfectly! It just doest diplay the box that says "You may ____" or "You may not ____" but that isnt a big deal, because once they try to do somethig that isnt allowed they received the error saying " You cannot have _________" so its all good :up:

[Dannyloski]

^ Nevermind, I thought it weas working but for some reason, users who were following the rules and tried to Edit their signatures got errors ... So now I'm using 3.6.7's Signature Limiter Settings, and added this hack (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=137167) to for external images ... all I need now is a filesize limiter for external images ...

[FanAddict]

Usergroup 1: can have 1 live email address and 1 hyperlink
Usergroup 2: can have 1 live email address and 4 hyperlinks

Can this script be modified for that?

That's exactly what I need as well :(

[bada_bing]

I believe I asked this question when this hack was first introduced and the answer was no you cant do that. This is a global Signature rule and not per group

[Garfiled]

Anyone trying with 3.6.8? Does it work?
thx

[stickskills]

Sorry for bumping this, but has anyone tested it with 3.7? Or does anyone know of a hack like this for 3.7? I have the files from an IPB one if anyone wanted to convert it :P

[thewebhostingdi]

I've the same question here. Any one tried for 3.7? Is this hack working for 3.7?

[Andreas]

It is not working with 3.7 and it is not required at all, as 3.7 has similar functionality built-in.

So forget about this hack is you use 3.6+ :-)

[glenbelt]

Will I need this on 3.6.8? Couldn't see any options on the forum regarding signature links etc...

Thanks

[glenbelt]

Sorry to be thick, but how do you install this?

Installation
------------
1) Upload bitfield-siglimits.xml
2) Import product-siglimits.xml

Do you upload bitfield-siglimits.xml using FTP?
When I tried importing product-siglimits.xml it says that it appears to be a program, and that I should try using the "add a program" feature...


Thanks for any help

[glenbelt]

Anybody know how to install? :(

[glenbelt]

Surely someone must know? :(

[vampireus]

It is not working with 3.7 and it is not required at all, as 3.7 has similar functionality built-in.

So forget about this hack is you use 3.6+ :-)

Can you tell me where is the similar functionality in 3.7? Signature Permissions in Usergroup Manager can't deal with custom BB codes in signature

[The4um]

this hack is amazing, but, some update for 3.7.x ??? :(

[adrian.gheorghe]

Is it possible to prevent users to use some domain links in their signature? For example I have some users that are using their signature to put links to an another board and I want to prevent them to use links which are matching the regex "http://ww.another-board.com"

[tendo]

Is it possible to prevent users to use some domain links in their signature? For example I have some users that are using their signature to put links to an another board and I want to prevent them to use links which are matching the regex "http://ww.another-board.com"

fascist

[adrian.gheorghe]

fascist

No, comunist ;)
so? any ideeas ?

[MagicThemeParks]

Does this mod work with 3.8?

[Andreas]

Nope. It's not needed anyway, vB 3.6+ has Signature Permissions built-in.

[original'as]

Fatal error: Using $this when not in object context in httpdocs/forumas/includes/class_upload.php on line 402

Does not work on vb 3.8.. and I can't find how to turn signature limiting by size for not uploaded pictures to our forum..

For example users still can post images too big in size by pixels, o too heavy in KB with [img] tags..

So no solution for this? O no new plugin that would do the job?

[Tettinntil]

Nope. It's not needed anyway, vB 3.6+ has Signature Permissions built-in.
Where do I limit signature heights (incl. images) in 3.8??

[SEW810]

AdminCP->Usergroups->Usergroup Manager->

Edit "Users" Griup (ID: 2) and go to Signature Permissions

Regards :)