My users are VERY fond of big, elaborate signatures, and that tends to turn-off first-time visitors who are on dial-up. I want everyone's "showsignatures" option to be set to "no" by default, instead of yes. Then they can go turn on sigs in their cp if they want to see them.

Thanks!

:D

uhm, edit the register.php file, set there behind the option ya want, 0 instead or 1 (or 1 instead of 0)
correct me please if i am wrong...

much easier solution rick and Nathan...edit the the registeradult template.

find and change it to
simple as that. no need to edit the PHP files.

ah :)

I'm not a prof in hacking and coding... :)

But will that affect my 500 users who are already registered? What about first-time visitors who haven't registered yet?

you cannot affect that for visitors. it is quite simply impossible.

i can't see any easy way to affect your current members because of the way options are stored. not to mention, your current members have probably figured out what the deal is already can can turn them off by themselves if they really want to.

what i said above will affect anyone when registering.

Set Everyone's showsignatures to off:
UPDATE user SET options=options-1 WHERE options&1

Set Everyone's showsignatures to on
UPDATE user SET options=options+1 WHERE NOT(options&1)

Set Everyone's showavatars to off:
UPDATE user SET options=options-2 WHERE options&2

Set Everyone's showavatars to on:
UPDATE user SET options=options+2 WHERE NOT(options&2)

Set Everyone's showimages to off:
UPDATE user SET options=options-4 WHERE options&4

Set Everyone's showimages to on:
UPDATE user SET options=options+4 WHERE NOT(options&4)

Set Everyone's showvbcode to off:
UPDATE user SET options=options-8 WHERE options&8

Set Everyone's showvbcode to on:
UPDATE user SET options=options+8 WHERE NOT(options&8)

Um, sorry to sound like a moron, but what do I do with those lines? Is there a command-line in vB somewhere?

Wow...I guess it is easy. :)

Those are MySQL queries. You use either MySQL via Telnet, or via phpMyAdmin. There's a link in my sig to how to run a query via phpMyAdmin.

trying the
UPDATE user SET options=options-1 WHERE options&1
option