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Signature forced to bottom (postbit_legacy) · **Released**: 10-12-2006

This mod will force all user's signatures to the bottom of their post. This is helpful if you have custom fields displayed under your avatars. Only 3 code changes are required in the postbit_legacy template. It'll take you about one minute to install this.

I have attached a couple screenshots showing what this mod does. I also have enabled this on my forums and you can see an example there:

http://forums.ancientclan.com/

In postbit_legacy, find:

Code:

	<td class="alt2" width="175" style="border: $stylevar[cellspacing]px solid $stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]; border-top: 0px; border-bottom: 0px">

Change to:

Code:

	<td class="alt2" width="175" rowspan="2" style="border: $stylevar[cellspacing]px solid $stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]; border-top: 0px; border-bottom: 0px">

Then find:

Code:

		<if condition="$post['signature']">
		<!-- sig -->
			<div>
				__________________<br />
				$post[signature]
			</div>
		<!-- / sig -->
		</if>

Delete it.

Now find:

Code:

		<!-- / edit note -->
		</if>
	
	</td>
</tr>

Directly underneath add:

Code:

<tr>
<td class="alt1" valign="bottom" style="border-right: $stylevar[cellspacing]px solid $stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]">

		<if condition="$post['signature']">
		<!-- sig -->
			<hr size="1" style="color:$stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]" />
			<div valign="bottom">
				$post[signature]
			</div>
		<!-- / sig -->
		</if>
		</td>
</tr>

Before: Attachment 54617 After: Attachment 54618

miner · #12 10-14-2006, 08:17 AM

Thank you nice hack...

Sledgstone · #13 10-14-2006, 12:37 PM

Thanks for the nice words everyone.

For those of you that have that extra line above your signature, this is because you have cellspacing set to 1 for your main postbit_legacy table. Most people use cellspacing="1" to add that border line inbetween the two main cells of the table and to add the border lines to seperate the online/reputation/etc icons and the edit/quote/etc buttons from their respective cells. As of vb 3.6 there is a border sperating the main cells so you don't need to add any extra code for that one, but for the bottom rows you can still keep those borders by doing the following:

(Before doing this, please look at the screenshots to see the before and after to make sure you like the results and that you still want to do this.)

In postbit_legacy

Find:

Code:

<table id="post$post[postid]" class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

Replace with:

Code:

<table id="post$post[postid]" class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

Find:

Code:

	<td class="alt2" style="border: $stylevar[cellspacing]px solid $stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]; border-top: 0px">

Replace with:

Code:

	<td class="alt2" style="border: $stylevar[cellspacing]px solid $stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]; border-top: 1px">

Find:

Code:

	<td class="alt1" align="$stylevar[right]" style="border: $stylevar[cellspacing]px solid $stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]; border-left: 0px; border-top: 0px">

Replace with:

Code:

	<td class="alt1" align="$stylevar[right]" style="border: $stylevar[cellspacing]px solid $stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]; border-left: 0px; border-top: 1px">

With cellspacing="1" (Notice the extra line above the sig.) Attachment 54666 After these code changes: Attachment 54667

Ohiosweetheart · #14 10-14-2006, 11:08 PM

FANTASTIC!!!! Thanks for the great mod!

An attached text file would be good

NeitherSparky · #15 10-16-2006, 01:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ohiosweetheart

An attached text file would be good

I agree with this.

Also, thank you muchos for the instructions on how to get rid of that stupid line.

As for my users: I presented them with the mod and they said they didn't like it! Said they didn't like the "space" in the middle of the posts. Mind you, when we first moved from Proboards, they were complaining about the space at the BOTTOM of the posts, and they asked me specifically if I could make the sigs go to the bottom. Geez.

Pinky30 · #16 10-19-2006, 01:20 PM

Don?t work with the Blue Vision Style from vBDesigns
What must I chance here?

My postbit_legacy Template:

Code:

<div class="frbg" $post[scrolltothis]>
      <div class="frbgl"></div>
      <div class="frbgr"></div>
      <div class="fortext" >
            <div  style="float:right;padding:0;margin:-2px 0 2px 0;">
			&nbsp; [ <a href="showthread.php?p=$post[postid]#post$post[postid]"><strong>Diesen Beitrag direkt verlinken</strong></a> ]
			&nbsp;
			<if condition="$show['postcount']">#<a href="showpost.php?$session[sessionurl]p=$post[postid]&amp;postcount=$post[postcount]" target="new" rel="nofollow" id="postcount$post[postid]" name="$post[postcount]"><strong>$post[postcount]</strong></a></if>
			<if condition="$show['inlinemod']">
				<input type="checkbox" name="plist[$postid]" id="plist_$postid" style="vertical-align:middle; padding:0px; margin:0px 0px 0px 5px" value="$post[checkbox_value]" />
			</if>
            </div>
	<if condition="$show['announcement']">
			<img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/post_$post[statusicon].gif" alt="$post[statustitle]" border="0" />
			<phrase 1="$post[startdate]" 2="$post[enddate]">$vbphrase[x_until_y]</phrase>
		
	<else />
			
			<!-- status icon and date -->
			<img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/post_$post[statusicon].gif" alt="$post[statustitle]" border="0" />
			$post[postdate]<if condition="!$show['detailedtime']">, $post[posttime]</if>
			$post[firstnewinsert]
			<!-- / status icon and date -->				</if>
      </div>
</div>

<table id="post$post[postid]" class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr valign="top">
	<td class="alt2" width="175">
			<a name="post$post[postid]"></a>
			<div id="postmenu_$post[postid]">
				<if condition="$show['profile']">
				<a class="bigusername" href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]">$post[musername]</a>
				<script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("postmenu_$post[postid]", true); </script>
				<else />
				$post[musername]
				</if>
			</div>
			
			<if condition="$post['usertitle']"><div class="smallfont">$post[usertitle]</div></if>
			<if condition="$post['rank']"><div class="smallfont">$post[rank]</div></if>
		
			<if condition="$show['avatar']">
				<div class="smallfont">
					&nbsp;<br /><a href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]"><img src="$post[avatarurl]" $post[avwidth] $post[avheight] alt="<phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[xs_avatar]</phrase>" border="0" /></a>
				</div>
			</if>
			
			<div class="smallfont">
				&nbsp;<br />
				<div class="pibu"><div class="pib"><if condition="$post['joindate']"><div>$vbphrase[join_date]: $post[joindate]</div></if>
				<if condition="$post['field2']"><div>$vbphrase[location_perm]: $post[field2]</div></if>
				<if condition="$post['age']"><div>$vbphrase[age]: $post[age]</div></if>
				<div>
					$vbphrase[posts]: $post[posts]
				</div>
				<if condition="$show['infraction']"><div>$vbphrase[infractions]: $post[warnings]/$post[infractions] ($post[ipoints])</div></if>
				<if condition="$show['reputation']"><div><if condition="$show['reppower']">$vbphrase[reppower]: <span id="reppower_$post[postid]_$post[userid]">$post[reppower]</span> </if><span id="repdisplay_$post[postid]_$post[userid]">$post[reputationdisplay]</span></div></if>
				<div>$post[icqicon] $post[aimicon] $post[msnicon] $post[yahooicon] $post[skypeicon]</div></div></div>
			</div>					
		
	</td>
	<if condition="$show['moderated']">
	<td class="alt2" id="td_post_$post[postid]">
	<else />
	<td class="alt1" id="td_post_$post[postid]">
	</if>
	
		<if condition="$show['messageicon'] OR $post['title']">
			<!-- icon and title -->
			<div class="smallfont">
				<if condition="$show['messageicon']"><img class="inlineimg" src="$post[iconpath]" alt="$post[icontitle]" border="0" /></if>
				<if condition="$post['title']"><strong>$post[title]</strong></if>
			</div>
			<hr size="1" style="color:$stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]" />
			<!-- / icon and title -->
		</if>
		
		<!-- message -->
		<div id="post_message_$post[postid]">$post[message]</div>
		<!-- / message -->
	
		<if condition="$show['attachments']">
		<!-- attachments -->
			<div style="padding:$stylevar[cellpadding]px">
			
			<if condition="$show['thumbnailattachment']">
				<fieldset class="fieldset">
					<legend>$vbphrase[attached_thumbnails]</legend>
					<div style="padding:$stylevar[formspacer]px">
					$post[thumbnailattachments]
					</div>
				</fieldset>
			</if>
		
			<if condition="$show['imageattachment']">
				<fieldset class="fieldset">
					<legend>$vbphrase[attached_images]</legend>
					<div style="padding:$stylevar[formspacer]px">
					$post[imageattachments]
					</div>
				</fieldset>
			</if>
			
			<if condition="$show['imageattachmentlink']">
				<fieldset class="fieldset">
					<legend>$vbphrase[attached_images]</legend>
					<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="$stylevar[formspacer]" border="0">
					$post[imageattachmentlinks]
					</table>
					</fieldset>
			</if>
			
			<if condition="$show['otherattachment']">
				<fieldset class="fieldset">
					<legend>$vbphrase[attached_files]</legend>
					<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="$stylevar[formspacer]" border="0">
					$post[otherattachments]
					</table>
				</fieldset>
			</if>
			
			<if condition="$show['moderatedattachment']">
				<fieldset class="fieldset">
					<legend>$vbphrase[attachments_pending_approval]</legend>
					<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="$stylevar[formspacer]" border="0">
					$post[moderatedattachments]
					</table>
				</fieldset>		
			</if>
			
			</div>
		<!-- / attachments -->
		</if>
		
		<if condition="$post['signature']">
                <!-- sig -->
			<div> 
				<br />
				<fieldset class="fieldset">
 <legend><b>Signatur von $post[musername]</b></legend>
$post[signature]<br />
</fieldset>

			</div>
		<!-- / sig -->
		</if>
		
		<if condition="$show['postedited']">
		<!-- edit note -->
			<div class="smallfont">			<hr size="1" style="color:$stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]" />
				<em>
				<phrase 1="$post[edit_username]" 2="$post[edit_date]" 3="$post[edit_time]">$vbphrase[last_edited_by_x_on_y_at_z]</phrase>.
				<if condition="$post['edit_reason']">$vbphrase[reason]: $post[edit_reason]</if>
				</em>
			</div>
		<!-- / edit note -->
		</if>
	
	</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td class="alt2"  >
		$post[onlinestatus]
		<if condition="$show['reputationlink']">
			<span id="reputationmenu_$post[postid]"><a href="reputation.php?$session[sessionurl]p=$post[postid]" rel="nofollow" id="reputation_$post[postid]"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/reputation.gif" alt="<phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[add_to_xs_reputation]</phrase>" border="0" /></a></span>
			<if condition="$show['popups']"><script type="text/javascript"> vbrep_register("$post[postid]")</script></if>
		</if>				
		<if condition="$show['infractionlink']"><a href="infraction.php?$session[sessionurl]do=report&amp;p=$post[postid]" rel="nofollow"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/infraction.gif" alt="<phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[add_infraction_for_x]</phrase>" border="0" /></a></if>
		<if condition="$show['reportlink']"><a href="report.php?$session[sessionurl]p=$post[postid]" rel="nofollow"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/report.gif" alt="$vbphrase[report_bad_post]" border="0" /></a></if>
		$post[iplogged]
		&nbsp;
	</td>
	<if condition="$show['moderated']">
	<td class="alt2" align="$stylevar[right]">
	<else />
	<td class="alt1" align="$stylevar[right]">
	</if>
		<!-- controls -->
		<if condition="$post['editlink']">
			<img style="display: none" id="progress_$postid" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/progress.gif" alt="$vbphrase[loading_editor_please_wait]" />
			<a href="$post[editlink]" name="vB::QuickEdit::$post[postid]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/edit.gif" alt="$vbphrase[edit_delete_message]" border="0" /></a>
		</if>
		<if condition="$post['forwardlink']">
			<a href="$post[forwardlink]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/forward.gif" alt="$vbphrase[forward_message]" border="0" /></a>
		</if>
		<if condition="$post['replylink']">
			<a href="$post[replylink]" rel="nofollow"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/<if condition="$post['forwardlink']">reply_small<else />quote</if>.gif" alt="$vbphrase[reply_with_quote]" border="0" /></a>
		</if>
		<if condition="$show['multiquote_post']">
			<a href="$post[replylink]" rel="nofollow" onclick="return false"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/multiquote_<if condition="$show['multiquote_selected']">on<else />off</if>.gif" alt="$vbphrase[multi_quote_this_message]" border="0" id="mq_$post[postid]" /></a>
<a href="cmps_index.php"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/bportal.gif" alt="$vbphrase[portal]" border="0" /></a>
		</if>
		<if condition="$show['quickreply'] AND !$show['threadedmode']">
			<a href="$post[replylink]" rel="nofollow" id="qr_$post[postid]" onclick="return false"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/quickreply.gif" alt="$vbphrase[quick_reply_to_this_message]" border="0" /></a>
<a href="#top" onclick="self.scrollTo(0, 0); return false;"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/btop.gif" alt="$vbphrase[top]" border="0" /></a>
		</if>
		<if condition="$show['moderated']">
			<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/moderated.gif" alt="$vbphrase[moderated_post]" border="0" />
		</if>
		<if condition="$show['deletedpost']">
			<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/trashcan.gif" alt="$vbphrase[deleted_post]" border="0" />
		</if>
		<if condition="$show['redcard']">
			<a href="infraction.php?$session[sessionurl]do=view&amp;p=$post[postid]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/redcard.gif" alt="$vbphrase[received_infraction]" border="0" /></a>
		<else />
			<if condition="$show['yellowcard']">
				<a href="infraction.php?$session[sessionurl]do=view&amp;p=$post[postid]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/yellowcard.gif" alt="$vbphrase[received_warning]" border="0" /></a>
		</if>
			</if>
		<!-- / controls -->
	</td>
</tr>
</table>

<!-- post $post[postid] popup menu -->
<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="postmenu_$post[postid]_menu" style="display:none">
	<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
	<tr>
		<td class="thead">$post[username]</td>
	</tr>
	<if condition="$show['profile']">
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]">$vbphrase[view_public_profile]</a></td></tr>
	</if>
	<if condition="$show['pmlink']">
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="private.php?$session[sessionurl]do=newpm&amp;u=$post[userid]" rel="nofollow"><phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[send_private_message_to_x]</phrase></a></td></tr>
	</if>
	<if condition="$show['emaillink']">
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="sendmessage.php?$session[sessionurl]do=mailmember&amp;u=$post[userid]" rel="nofollow"><phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[send_email_to_x]</phrase></a></td></tr>
	</if>
	<if condition="$show['homepage']">
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="$post[homepage]"><phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[visit_xs_homepage]</phrase></a></td></tr>
	</if>
	<if condition="$show['search']">
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=finduser&amp;u=$post[userid]" rel="nofollow"><phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[find_more_posts_by_x]</phrase></a></td></tr>
	</if>
	<if condition="$post['userid'] AND $show['member']">
	<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="profile.php?$session[sessionurl]do=addlist&amp;userlist=buddy&amp;u=$post[userid]"><phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[add_x_to_buddy_list]</phrase></a></td></tr>
	</if>
	</table>
</div>
<!-- / post $post[postid] popup menu -->

thepub · #17 10-19-2006, 04:45 PM

I cannot find the first set of code you are saying to look for in vb3.6.2 postbit legacy. I found it in one style but after carefully reading and searchin, the code is not in my other style

|oR|Greg · #18 10-19-2006, 05:15 PM

Well, Thanks for the hack first off, nice idea. However because my board is so heavily modded your code had to have lots of changes. I eventually got it all working, but one thing I did notice. If a user doesn't have a signature, it adds a small empty amount of space between the post and the controls beneath the post. It does this because your hack adds a new row whether or not the user has a signature. To overcome this you can do the following:

Find:

Code:

<td class="alt2" width="175" rowspan="2" style="border: $stylevar[cellspacing]px solid $stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]; border-top: 0px; border-bottom: 0px">

Replace with:

Code:

<if condition="$post['signature']">
<td class="alt2" width="175" rowspan="2" style="border: $stylevar[cellspacing]px solid $stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]; border-top: 0px; border-bottom: 0px">
<else />
<td class="alt2" width="175" style="border: $stylevar[cellspacing]px solid $stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]; border-top: 0px; border-bottom: 0px">
</if>

Find:

Code:

<tr>
<td class="alt1" valign="bottom" style="border-right: $stylevar[cellspacing]px solid $stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]">

		<if condition="$post['signature']">
		<!-- sig -->
			<hr size="1" style="color:$stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]" />
			<div valign="bottom">
				$post[signature]
			</div>
		<!-- / sig -->
		</if>
		</td>
</tr>

Replace with:

Code:

<if condition="$post['signature']">
<tr>
<td class="alt1" valign="bottom" style="border-right: $stylevar[cellspacing]px solid $stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]">
		<!-- sig -->
			<hr size="1" style="color:$stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]" />
			<div valign="bottom">
				$post[signature]
			</div>
		<!-- / sig -->
		</td>
</tr>
</if>

thepub · #19 10-19-2006, 06:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sledgstone

Thanks for the nice words everyone.

For those of you that have that extra line above your signature, this is because you have cellspacing set to 1 for your main postbit_legacy table. Most people use cellspacing="1" to add that border line inbetween the two main cells of the table and to add the border lines to seperate the online/reputation/etc icons and the edit/quote/etc buttons from their respective cells. As of vb 3.6 there is a border sperating the main cells so you don't need to add any extra code for that one, but for the bottom rows you can still keep those borders by doing the following:

(Before doing this, please look at the screenshots to see the before and after to make sure you like the results and that you still want to do this.)

In postbit_legacy

Find:

Code:

<table id="post$post[postid]" class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

Replace with:

Code:

<table id="post$post[postid]" class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

Find:

Code:

	<td class="alt2" style="border: $stylevar[cellspacing]px solid $stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]; border-top: 0px">

Replace with:

Code:

	<td class="alt2" style="border: $stylevar[cellspacing]px solid $stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]; border-top: 1px">

Find:

Code:

	<td class="alt1" align="$stylevar[right]" style="border: $stylevar[cellspacing]px solid $stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]; border-left: 0px; border-top: 0px">

Replace with:

Code:

	<td class="alt1" align="$stylevar[right]" style="border: $stylevar[cellspacing]px solid $stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]; border-left: 0px; border-top: 1px">

With cellspacing="1" (Notice the extra line above the sig.) Attachment 54666 After these code changes: Attachment 54667

ok I did this and my forum is completely screwed up! Seriously, I have tried to make it normal again and it's not working. my members are freaking out, I'm freaking out and I do not know what to do.

|oR|Greg · #20 10-19-2006, 08:05 PM

Revert your templates pub.

thepub · #21 10-19-2006, 08:34 PM

I did and now my vbplaza is gone and I dont know how to put it in for that template

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