Extended Signature Limits

Extended Signature Limits

Description
This Hack allows you to control

• Maximum Number of Lines
• Maximum Font Size
• Links to external Websites
• BBCodes
• Images (max. Number/Width/Height/Filesize)

used in Signatures.

Details
1 Product XML with 2 Plugins, 1 Setting and 17 Phrases

History
1.0.0
Initial Version

1.0.1
Replaced most Settings with Usergroup Permissions
Added Checks for Images (max. Number/Width/Height/Filesize)

1.0.2
Added information Text about applied Restrictions to "Posting Rules"

1.0.3
Fixed a problem with single/double quotes in [size] Tags that allowed bypassing the fontsize limit.

Important: vBulletin 3.5.1
If you are using vBulletin 3.5.1 and downloaded the ZIP of this Hack before 02.11.2005 21:00 CET, please use the attached bitfield XML file.

[kira]

Originally Posted by tendo

someone PLEASE tell me what this means hehe

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.)

[Sculli]

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.

[tendo]

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.

[Schwarze Katze]

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. -_-'

[Andrew K]

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

[Nathan2006]

Thank you Andreas

Just what I have been looking for

Install

[drumsy]

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

[Megareus Rex]

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.

[Pathor]

Perfect work!

Should be standard!

Klick install!

[akanevsky]

Originally Posted by Pathor

Perfect work!

Should be standard!

Klick install!

Shouldn't be a standard as it currently is, but with some code imrovements - definitely.