Signature Guardian Version 1 (Beta Released)

Signature Guardian Version 1 / 0212

Tomorrow night will be the big update... April 29, 2005

I have been out of town so I have not had a chance to get the final version done, but it is done now. The final version will include the following...

1. Mod Panel Controls

The Admin Panel has a option for the administrator to set permissions for mods and super mods to access the following controls!

A. Can or can not remove signature bans!
B. Can or can not view or edit signatures! (only signatures that are under ban!)
C. Can or can not access the forum signature controls (threadbit, postbits)

2. Admin Panel Controls

A. Set Auto ban limits ( hour(s), day(s), week(s), month(s), forever ) [per group]
B. You now can merge permissions into multi groups (set one permission to have it be used by many groups)
C. Admin Signature Editor, (all editors, uses the one you have selected in your options)
D. Image viewer (report)
E. Turn on or Off forum signature controls! (validate signatures (by post or thread) full detailed report shown with Admin options... (what to validate)
F. domain blocking via file or database.

I have also written a 15 page help file with over 100 images that explains each control in as much detail as I could. Also Help phrases have been added throughout the Admin and Mod panel and on the threadbits and postbits controls!

That it, c ya tomorrow!

Sonia

(2) mirror errors that should be corrected. MySQL 3 support

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...d=1#post640036


Added MySQL support for any version of MySQL less than 4.1, including MySQL version 3, but you should update your MySQL install if you can!

Update the zip file to include both Mysql version scripts and error fixes!


The signature control is very advanced signature control and monitor! This modification will allow the administrator to take back control of all signatures on their forum. The control has over 100 key features that will allow total control of signature displaying on your forum!


The signature control allows you to switch from using vBulletin limited signature permissions, to a really advanced signature control. It does this by not ever effecting vBulletin control, allowing you to use the standard vBulletin control for some groups and use this advanced control for others!

The reason for developing this modification was to bring the complete signature control into one single Administrator Panel, so as not to have to set (bbcode rules) on one vBulletin options page, then have to set (image rules) and other signature option on many different pages! It make administering your forum much easier!

The signature control gives you many different options. Each is designed to allow you complete unlimited control of just how you want each groups to display their signatures!

Key Features...

Overrides vBulletin Signature rules
Works via groups and single users!
Group can use signatures (yes/no)
Group can view any signature (yes/no)
Enforce new rules or updated rules now! (yes/no)

Signature monitor (vB fake cron, server cron) scripts included!
Auto Ban (Soft, signature removed until revalidated)
Auto Ban (Hard, signature removed until administrator review)

Signature Admin Panel

View and remove bans on banned signatures (with full details about each ban)
Quick stats (users who are using signatures, sizes)

Signature Permissions

Document permissions

Total lines allowed
Total characters per line
Total characters for (1) single word
Total spacing allowed between lines that have content
Total characters for complete signature
Turn bad word filter on or off


Smilies permissions

Group can use smilies (yes/no)
Total smilies allowed to be used (limit rule)
A list of smilies that are not allowed (denied rule)


bbcode permissions

Each BBCODE has it's own allow rules (yes/no)
Maximum times any (1) bbcode may be reused (#)
The total combined BBCODES allowed (#)
The minimum and maximum font SIZE allowed


URL permissions

Group can have links in their signatures (yes/no)
The maximum number of links allowed (#)
The HTTP protocols that are allowed (http, https, ftp...)
Domain Link blocking (allow and denied list Or just denied list) [simple wildcard rules]


IMAGE permissions

Group can have images in their signatures (yes/no)
Inline or display as link (yes/no)
The maximum number of images allowed (#)
Validate all images not local to this domain (yes/no)
Do line break testing if images with text (yes/no)
maximum size of any (1) image
maximum height of any (1) image
maximum width of any (1) image
image extensions that are allowed!
Domain image blocking (allow and denied list Or just denied list) [simple wildcard rules]


This is the beta release of this modification! The only part that is still beta, is the Admin Panel. The front end of this control is the (100% final working version). There will be no changes to that part of the code when this is released as being (Final).

The Admin Panel still needs (ban list sorting and limiting), see the install file for when this will be added as the first of (2) updates that this modification will have before being released as final!

As it is now, you can 100% (add, update) permissions, you also (view and remove hard bans). The Signature Monitor is (100%) working including (both) versions, the vB fake cron or the real server based cron!

FIRST UPDATE DONE (sort and limit) ban list

Zip File Updated....

For those that already have downloaded this before this update, see the first post below for the update zip file


Demo is here...

http://forum.ya-right.com/index.php?

Just create an account to try it!



Sonia

[Mike343]

Hey I am getting this error, if I get time tonight I will look into your for statement but if you happen to fix it before then let me know

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /includes/adminfunctions_signature.php on line 560

Thanks, Mike

[Jaxx]

For those of you that are getting blank menu's and you followed the instructions, you need to refresh your phrases.

Easiest way is to go and edit any one of the phrases in your phrase manager, BUT DO NOT CHANGE anything in it. Just save it.

This will force a refresh. Then refesh your admincp window and you should be all set.

[Jaxx]

Hm. Now I have to figure out what to do. If I force the validation of off-site images, then those that have used my siguploader hack lose the ability to have their sigs. :/

Reason being, the sig uploader hack will spit out the text you need to put in so it points at your sig. But its formatted as hxxp://www.website.org/forums/image.php?blahblahblahblahblah

So its invalid.

/sigh

[FightRice.com]

Is the install files going to become any easier? I couldn't install this becuase of this, (Not that its hard to open each install instruction .txt file, but becuase i'm to lazy i guess)

And i definetly don't understand what to do with the cron stuff

[WebMasterAJ]

I've been waiting for this hack ever since I went to vB3. Has the big upgrade come around?

[why-not]

Originally Posted by WebMasterAJ

I've been waiting for this hack ever since I went to vB3. Has the big upgrade come around?

Sorry I am a little slow. But I am almost there, finished I mean! I had to rewrite the secondary user group permissions so it's taking me more time than what I thought it would. This is because I want this mod to be able to work side by side with vB(s) default permissions, so as to not just overwrite the vB default permissions but to allow for both the default vB permissions and my advanced permissions to work without having to do code edits again and again. Also because this deals with most every posting form it must do things one way for a certain request and then do things differently for another request, so it's more complex than just adding a new feature! Almost 3,000 lines of code should tell you how complex it is!

God Bless

Sonia

[WebMasterAJ]

Awesome. No Rush IMO. I rather it be more complete

Thanks for all your hard work!

[Lee]

I have a user that is getting the following error when trying to edit his sig:

There seems to have been a slight problem with the SprintUsers.com database.
Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

<html><head><title>SprintUsers.com Database Error</title><style type="text/css"><!--.error { font: 11px tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; }--></style></head>
<body></table></td></tr></table></form>
<blockquote><p class="error">&nbsp;</p><p class="error"><b>There seems to have been a slight problem with the SprintUsers.com database.</b><br />
Please try again by pressing the <a href="javascript:window.location=window.location;" >refresh</a> button in your browser.</p><p class="error">An E-Mail has been dispatched to our <a href="mailto:vbdb2004@sprintusers.com">Technical Staff</a>, who you can also contact if the problem persists.</p><p class="error">We apologise for any inconvenience.</p></blockquote>

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Database error in vBulletin 3.0.7:

Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO monitor VALUES ( 22, 331, '', '' );
mysql error: Duplicate entry '331' for key 1

mysql error number: 1062

Any ideas? Thanks for an AMAZING hack!!!

[dsboyce8624]

Okay, I really want this. I just want to know if the downloadable file at the top is the complete package (has it been updated), or do I need to go through the thread again after and apply all the chages I saw (yes I read the thread before I install.)

Thanks,

[Lee]

Originally Posted by speedpro50

I have a user that is getting the following error when trying to edit his sig:

There seems to have been a slight problem with the SprintUsers.com database.
Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience.



Any ideas? Thanks for an AMAZING hack!!!

Any ideas on my post above?