[RELEASE] Sig Length Limit

Trying to keep this simple, as I need it for my site now (some guy posted a 34 line, 7kb sig). Set $siglimit to the number of lines you want to be.

This is not particularly efficient, but it will limit sigs already in place. So...

showthread.php, find:

      $signature= "\n__________________\n$userinfo[signature]";

Replace with:

      $signature= "\n__________________\n";
      $splitsig = explode("\n", $userinfo[signature]);
      $siglimit = 6;
      if (count($splitsig)>$siglimit) {
      	for ($i=0;$i<$siglimit;$i++) {
      		$signature .= "$splitsig[$i]\n";
      	}
      } else {
      	$signature .= "$userinfo[signature]";
      }

Tada! Remember to set $siglimit to what you want!

just curious what sig line number did everyone use ? 10, 15, 20 lines ?

Personally, I was going to use 6. Although I'll have to see what my "advisors" say The whole reason this spawned was because of the ASCII art fad at my forums. Since I have a ... tag, my users have been making some nifty little ASCII art people. (They'd use periods and null characters to make blanks) Some were quite good, some sucked; some were big, some were small.

Well, this one guy decided to make a 34 line dragon, which I have to say was really cool. BUT, in 1024x768 it takes up the whole screen! He took it down, and replaced it with a 15 line thingy. Some other user has a big sword (10 lines) and a 5 line quote. Another one, whom I've let slide for too long, has a 15 line poem.

So, I would suggest 6, with 8 as a max.

I have 5...enough for an email, name, a couple of sites and a quote.

Basically what this change does is print a defineable error message if the user's signature exceeds the maximum amount of specified lines. So instead of just limiting the amount of lines, it totally removes offending signature and puts your error message in its place.

All I really did was add another variable ($sigerror), and eliminated the for() loop.

If you have Ed's hack installed already, just replace his code with:

      $signature= "\n__________________\n";
      $splitsig = explode("\n", $userinfo[signature]);
      $siglimit = 6;
      $sigerror = "Signature Too Long";
      if (count($splitsig)>$siglimit) {
         $signature .= "$sigerror";
       } else {
      	$signature .= "$userinfo[signature]";
      }

You can change $sigerror to be anything you want it to be; or in Ed's case, as MEAN as you want it to be .

-jim

*loves the tiny, yet very useful hacks*


[Edited by JimF on 09-17-2000 at 03:12 AM]

Sorry, OT here.

or in Ed's case, as MEAN as you want it to be

You realize like 1/4 of the people on my boards dislike me? But that's because they're complete idiots (ie, YELLING, huge sigs, cross-posting). Oh well, they deserve it. LOL

Originally posted by Ed Sullivan
Sorry, OT here.

You realize like 1/4 of the people on my boards dislike me? But that's because they're complete idiots (ie, YELLING, huge sigs, cross-posting). Oh well, they deserve it. LOL

yikes makes admin/moderating fun i bet

hm...wel it gives you something to let steam loose on

Originally posted by Menno
hm...wel it gives you something to let steam loose on

I do - that's why they don't like me.

Could a user circumvent the hack (if HTML was enabled) and used <br>'s instead? Also, if they let it wrap around there might not be any \n's to look for either, so they could enter in 30,000 characters and be ok. Perhaps a character limit could be enforced as well?

mrogish, you are absolutely correct. If the user just has one long sentence, it would circumvent the hack. Well, the original one. The change I made eliminates the entire signature.

I was fudging around and decided to try making a character limit, a total lines limit, as well as an image size limit for sigs, controllable from the Control Panel. I guess something would have to be added to make it look for <br>'s as well - might as well make it totally functional.

For some reason, I get more excited about tiny little hacks like this than I do for huge PM and Poll hacks and such .

-jim