HACK REQUEST: customized signature

Since I'm not a programmer or PHP guy, I need some help here:

I want the signature that is diplayed at the end of every message (at least, if people add a signature) to be displayed in a different font size & color than the actual message. Since you cannot do that with the provided templates, I guess someone will need to hack some php code for this wish-feature.

Is there anyone out there who wants to help me? It could also be a nice feature for upcoming releases of vBulletin btw.

In showthread.php find:
if ($post[showsignature]==1 and $allowsignatures==1 and trim($userinfo[signature])!="") {
$signature= "\n__________________\n$userinfo[signature]";

and put your html tags between the " "

I tried that, but the HTML tags are not parsed for forums where the HTML code is not allowed unfortunately

And since most of our forums don't allow HTML code, I need another solution :-(

im sure you can use a php code to resize the text but I dont know PHP so youl need someone else to help you.

We provided a series of custom BBCodes to our users and allow them to use those and smilies to create unique and interesting signatures.

We don't however force the signatures to be a certain size or color.

You would add it in this line:

$signature= "\n__________________\nYour Opening HTML Here$userinfo[signature]Your Closing HTML here";

Just be sure to escape any quotes, so instead of <font color="#000000">, you would put <font color=\"#000000\">.

That should work for you.

-jim

JimF: that only works when HTML parsing is turned on, but like I said, we don't allow HTML on most of our forums, so the solution is a bit more complicated than your suggestion.


I think it has something to do with this line @showthread.php:

$message=bbcodeparse($post[pagetext],$forumid,$post[allowsmilie]).bbcodeparse($signature,0,$allowsmilies);

How can I include my two font tags <font size=1> & </font> in there?

----------

BTW, editing this message reminds me: I also want to do the same for the |Edited by ....| line, but that's even more complicated I guess, becaus it's a real part of the message



[Edited by Fritzz on 01-05-2001 at 03:58 PM]

I don't know why having HTML parsing on or off would have an effect on that code. I didn't try it, but if it didn't work, than no HTML would work without having code parsing on. Which would make it hard to have a forum that is supposed to send HTML to the browser.



-jim

add a new replacement bbcode/var

replace

\n__________________\n

with

begin html goes here\n__________________\nend html goes here

call me lazy, but why hardcode stuff in when you have a nice little string replacement system already in place