Has anyone found a way to show signatures in Social Groups messages?

[Merriweather]

Title says it all... I've seen a few people mention wanting to be able to show sigs in Social Groups messages, but wasn't sure if anyone has made it happen yet...

Thanks!!

[Lynne]

I saw a modification to change the postbit for the social messages. Maybe it shows signatures? You might want to go take a look at it.

[Merriweather]

I have that one, and it doesn't. The author of that one said there'd be some additional modding involved to make the signature show... :?

Thank you, though.

[BigJohnny]

try putting $prepared[signature] somewhere.... Im not sure if that variable will be active in those templates, but it might be..... if it doesnt work at least i tried

it might be $prepared['signature'] ..... those apostrophes always throw me off.

[Lynne]

I think you made need to write a plugin to get the signature available. Try the hook location "group_view_message_query". Look in class_groupmessage.php to see the query so you can write the plugin.

[MrEyes]

Originally Posted by Merriweather

The author of that one said there'd be some additional modding involved to make the signature show... :?

I am the author

When I originally started the mod I wanted to use the full postbit, so signatures, avatars and any postbit mods that were already present. However once I dived into I quickly realised that the social discussion and forum discussion sub systems were entirely independent and therefore had different hook points. This meant that I couldn't include postbit mods such as Arcade scores etc.

In addition to this the database queries that backend the social discussion pages do not retrieve signatures so they couldn't be added either.

The template edit I created is literally just that, a template edit - to get signatures it would require a "proper" mod that added queries to obtain the signature information - unfortunately I didn't have the time, and honestly the inclination, to do it.

So if somebody wants to put a mod together then go ahead, they will love you for it.