Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Tapatalk Signature ("Sent from my...") Remover for VB3 & VB4

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Version 1.1 - Updated to work with Tapatalk AND Tapatalk 2.

Tapatalk (www.tapatalk.com) is an add-on for vBulletin to allow uses with iPhones, Droids, Blackberrys, and other smart phones to easily view and post on your forum.

However Tapatalk has one annoying feature- It adds a "Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk" message at the end of each message if the user posting has enabled this feature.

NEW - As of April 2016 Tapatalk no longer allows Admins with free accounts to shut off the signatures from users using Tapatalk. This mod has become useful again.

This mod will hide or replace at your option all of the "Sent from my X using Tapatalk" messages giving you a cleaner looking forum.

At your option you can also replace the signature with something else, perhaps a small image or a link or whatever you want, HTML is allowed in the replacement.

This works for VB 3.7, 3.8, 4.0.x, 4.1.x and 4.2.x versions of vBulletin.

Full instructions in zip file.

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[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by karabaja3

Thank you so much for this mod

Is there a way to remove it from quotes?

It should remove it from quotes and posts as is... did you try?

[karabaja3]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

It should remove it from quotes and posts as is... did you try?

Nope, it does not remove it form qoutes. In post is hidden, but when I click reply to such post it shows up signature in quotes as I posted.

[jimsflies]

I wished tapatalk would allow forum owners to disable the tapatalk signatures. My users have all customized there signatures into a myriad of dumb things which take away from the forum and ultimately waste bytes of database storage.

[karabaja3]

This stupid Tapatlak's signature is forum disease. I am thinkig about uninstaling support for tapatalk.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by karabaja3

Nope, it does not remove it form qoutes. In post is hidden, but when I click reply to such post it shows up signature in quotes as I posted.

Can I get a link to your a thread in your forum where it isn't working?

On my forum: http://www.juot.net/forums/showthread.php?t=54189
Post 12 in that thread has the signature and post 13 quoted it and they are both removed.

[karabaja3]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Can I get a link to your a thread in your forum where it isn't working?

On my forum: http://www.juot.net/forums/showthread.php?t=54189
Post 12 in that thread has the signature and post 13 quoted it and they are both removed.

After cleaning cache, works fine. Sorry.

Did you think about adding option for complete removal of Tapatalk signature from database?

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by karabaja3

After cleaning cache, works fine. Sorry.

Did you think about adding option for complete removal of Tapatalk signature from database?

It's something I'm going to play with but honestly I hate risking database changes, if something went wrong I'd feel too bad. If I do get something together I'll be sure to post it here for people who want to use it at their own risk. I'm thinking a scheduled task that runs every 10 minutes maybe and looks for Tapatalk signatures...

[karabaja3]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

It's something I'm going to play with but honestly I hate risking database changes, if something went wrong I'd feel too bad.

your work, our risk. Nothing to worry about.

I'm thinking a scheduled task that runs every 10 minutes maybe and looks for Tapatalk signatures...

Yeah! Cron job would be great. If I knew how to do it, I would do it.
I saw some ideas about removing sig at the moment of posting. But that would take to many server resources. Cron job would be the perfect solution.

[AdReNaLiN_PA]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

If you go to Plugin Manager I'd be most interested in any mods that might have a plugin on the postbit_display_complete hook.

The only mod I have active on the postbit_display_complete hook is

Product : VB Pro Garage Timeslips

Could this be the conflict?
The only other mods I have installed are:


Product : AddonChat
Product : GlowHost - Spam-O-Matic
Product : vBadvanced CMPS

[BirdOPrey5]

I looked at the code from VB Pro Garage Timeslips and I can't imagine it is causing the problem, but then again I can't imagine there is a problem to begin with. I don't suppose you have a test site setup I can get access to to play with some things?