It is perfectly possible to count characters of course, but the problem is that this will count characters in image URLs as well. Let's say you would put a 60 character limit per line and the user has 3 smilies on that line for example, that would be the limit of that line.

It would be very unpractical to first exclude all smilies URLs from the string in order to count characters.

i installed the hack and it works great but is there a way I can update all the threads to make the Hack take control cause after installing it, i still seen alot of members with long signatures

Great job man! :)

I suggest you use PPN's sig editor hack so all your mods can reset signatures on the fly. My board is fairly busy (I have a bout 25 moderators) and in a matter of 2-3 days pretty much every signature was within the line/image limit.

Definately beats going into the admin control panel and resetting users's sig one by one.

Could I install this hack in conjunction with Signature-Editor hack?

If you are talking about PPN's hack, yes. As I mentioned I have both installed.

Not PPN's hack, the other is Signature Preview for users by Fryzid, it has lines limited too so I'm wondering if it'd work with yours.

Great hack! :)

Would there be any way to limit the signature by total height (ie in pixels)? Because if I allow, say, 4 rows, the user could still use 4 huge banners. I'd much rather be able to give them a certain amount of space that they could use whichever way they want.

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Yes, and more importantly for me would be to restrict the file weights of the images. Some of these people upload img files that are 100K+ and put them into their signatures. Not good for load speed or bandwidth.

Great Hack, BTW.

I also would be intrested in the limiting of the banner in peoples sig!