The hack that was referred to is not that difficult, but I have seen it running on boards that still have sig length issues. For example, people would post an image AND text. And when text was a larger point size than standard, it is not considered in this hack, so there were still very large sigs.

What would be difficult is to write a truly comprehensive hack that covers all the possibilities. The only other option is to just limit the possibilities in sigs. But if you allow images AND text and text markup, then you need a hack more complex than this one.

Admitedly this hack is better than anything that currently exsits, but I dont think it is enough. I have over 27,000 members on my site and we have to manually enforce the sig length rules. I have implemented a number of sig limit hacks and members have found ways around them within days.

Add me to the list of people who would like to see this Hack come to life.

Why can't someone at least get the ball rolling. The first release of a hack doesn't hate to cover ever possible variable does it? Many hacks are released and developed as the community uses it and provides feedback.

What say you?

major bump, someone make this, we all really need it !!

vbullletin should have this anyways its strange we have to make it a hack.

I will see what I can do to get the basics of having one image and have it check the size with GD, without it being stored on your server like the hack that was made for vB2.

After I get that done then I will see about more complexity.

I like the idea of this hack also, I can't write it but I can give some ideas atleast

Allow control of the number of images in sigs (right now you can only control images in posts/sigs -- 1 variable for both)
be able to set max image sizes
be able to mass remove/warn of oversized sigs (maintenance)
--warnings would remove the [img] tags and add a notice at the top, but leave the content for the moment.
decrease sig dimensions based on lines of text and font size
--take the font height for each line and subtract it from the overall total for the text and image
--defined by returns or characters/line limit variable maybe?
prevent [img] followed by text causing page to stretch horizontally, or insert a return and recalculate max sig size.
some sort of quote / code box controls
basically, anything that could force the sig area larger than the set limit.

again, just ideas.. but I would really appreciate this!
anything else I'm forgetting? :rolleyes:

I'd add to the list:

The ability to turn on/off image tags to usergroups (say, only donors get sigs?)

I too would like this mod.

You can do this now, by modifiying the usergroup settings. I dont allow sigs until members reach 50 posts, that can be changed to donators in your case..

Any progress?

My idea would be to get as many people to sign this thread as possible :d