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?

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

someone PLEASE tell me what this means hehe

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?

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

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

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

any chance of adding curl compatibility yet? :p

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 :))

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.)

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.

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.

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. -_-'

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

Thank you Andreas

Just what I have been looking for ;)

Install

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

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.

Perfect work! :)

Should be standard!

Klick install! ;)

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).

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

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

it's the best.

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.

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?

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.

Nice one

Is it remove email address ?

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?

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?

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

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

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 >:(

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?

"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?

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"?

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)

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. :(

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

ya the max dimensions defintely dont work. This sucks