Is there is any way to limit signature length?

ruwan23

This discussion is related to the Signatures addon.

Is there is any way to limit signature length?

Todd

There isn't a way to limit signature length, no.

422

You need to identify the var that controls signatures, i dont know it. Im on ipad having a smoko outside lol. @underdog or @peregrine or @x00 can help, they are geniususeseses

ruwan23

:-( :-( I thanks @Todd

422

Surely you could using strlen

eg.

$string = substr($string,0,10).'...';

422

A quick snippet I found online which you could implement.

<?php

function cutAfter($string, $len = 30, $append = '...') {
        return (strlen($string) > $len) ? 
          substr($string, 0, $len - strlen($append)) . $append : 
          $string;
}

echo cutAfter('foo bar baz', 2)."\n";
echo cutAfter('foo bar baz', 10)."\n";
echo cutAfter('foo bar baz', 11)."\n";

echo cutAfter('foo bar baz', 6, '!!!')."\n"; ?>

Outputs:

foo bar ba...

foo bar...

foo bar baz

foo!!!

422

Or optionally: easiest method

$string = (strlen($string) > 13) ? substr($string,0,10).'...' : $string;

ruwan23

thanks @422 Please can you tell me what file i should edit? I could not find $string = (strlen($string) > 13) ? substr($string,0,10).'...' : $string;

peregrine

if you are using the signature plugin and just using straight text. this will cut the the sig length properly. With tags and images your results may vary.

around line 260 in the signatures.class.plugin.php

change - 

 $UserSig = $UserSignatures[$SourceUserID];
    if ($HideImages) {


to this.  (replace the 10 with the number of chars you want).

 $UserSig = $UserSignatures[$SourceUserID];
   $UserSig =  substr($UserSig,0, 10); 
    if ($HideImages) {

BTW - @fh111 is an expert on truncation now - he can probably give you some tips now.

peregrine

But the easiest and probably the best way if you are concerned about the number of lines the signature takes up. just use css and multiply the lines you want by the font-size to se the height.

for a one-line restriction - just change the signature.css in the design folder of the plugin and add a height parameter.

.UserSignature {
   border-top: 1px solid #595959;
   padding: 2px 0px;
   font-size: 11px;
   margin-top: 10px;
   height: 14px;
}