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.

[Razz]

Originally Posted by Sculli

Awesome hack, installed!

Any chance future versions could detect and deny animated GIFs?

Is this not a usergroup option now?

[Sculli]

Originally Posted by Razz

Is this not a usergroup option now?

It is for avatars, but not for sig images, afaik.

[Sculli]

Not entirely sure what's happening. I reset the sigs for everyone, set the sig limits to 550x250 and 65k, and still, a user has a 686x200 235k image in PNG format in his sig. What gives?

Edit: It seems like this is a problem with other file formats as well. The host is always photobucket. Guess there is a problem with that host?

Edit2: Oh man, this really irks me. I deleted all the sigs and had people redo them. Now it turns out that this only works for some, and not for others, which basically defeats the purpose. I mean if I have to manually edit sigs and send PMs to those who have oversized sigs, then there was really no point for me to put the burden of redoing sigs on all users. I realize this is not a bug in the extension. I just hope that my experience will serve others so that they will consider whether to delete everyones sig or not.

[djjeffa]

im running it on 3.5.2 and im set the size for regular users now it dont seem to be affecting curent signs should it?

[Lynch]

Originally Posted by TCM

Sig width and height isn't really practical. It depends on the settings of the user viewing the post.

I dont' understand why people say this sort of thing. Sig Width and height is very practical. It's no different than avatar width and height. If you don't put limits on it, people will use a half dozen images and some are just huge.

Yes, I understand that you can choose to turn sigs off if you don't want to view them, but why not have the option of setting a dimension and filesize limit? There are still people on dialup of which some I know get pretty irked having to wait for some a-hole's obnoxious sig to download.


JM2CW

[Sculli]

Originally Posted by djjeffa

im running it on 3.5.2 and im set the size for regular users now it dont seem to be affecting curent signs should it?

No, read the earlier pages of this thread, current sigs are not affected.
Neither are new sigs in many cases when you allow external links.

[epic1]

3.5.3 user here.

Restricting sig limits is not working.

[Tri@de]

Someone has hard tested this on 3.5.3?

[IrPr]

Originally Posted by Andreas

Important: vBulletin 3.5.1

mmm but seems workin on 3.5.2 and doesnt work on 3.5.3

[Dave Rosteck]

Yes, unfortunately it doesn't work on 3.5.3. We need an update please!