Signatures

NickE · July 2006

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Signatures

ahu911 · March 2007

great job ï¼šï¼‰ thx

localoptima · March 2007

When I installed this extension, my discussions all became blank at the discussion level view (ie I can see them as links at the category level, but can't read them). Using Vanilla 1.1.2, PHP 5.1.2.

[-Stash-] · March 2007

Is there not some way to automate that theme change?

NickE · March 2007

@local: are you sure you applied the modification correctly? it sounds suspiciously like there's some sort of fatal error in the comments theme file.

@stash: well it's possible, but it'd probably be more trouble than it's worth. the extension would have to have the permissions to write to theme/comments.php, and it'd also have to store its status somewhere as well (so it won't try to modify the theme file every time). ideally there'd be some sort of delegate at the end of the creation of the comment body.

WallPhone · March 2007

Why not just append the signature to the comment body before it is displayed? Like it is done in Thankful People:

function AddSignature(&$CommentGrid) {
   $Comment = $CommentGrid->DelegateParameters['Comment'];
   $Comment->CommentBody .= (defined('EXTENSION_IN_SIGNATURES') ? SignatureRender(@$Row['AuthUserPrefs']) : '');
}
$Context->AddToDelegate('CommentGrid', 'PostCommentOptionsRender', 'AddSignature');

NickE · March 2007

because, as you'll notice in the call to SignatureRender, I need access to the array of mysql results ($Row), because it adds a field to the query which isn't accounted for in Comment::GetPropertiesFromDataSet

I suppose I should have said, ideally one of the delegate parameters would be the raw mysql results.

AhYap.com · April 2007

The Quotations extension will quote the Signature as well if you use the Signature extension.

You can change some code in the quotation extension as instructed here Quotations # 9

bjrn · May 2007

Is there a reason why that "NoFunc" function is there? I removed it, and everything seems to be working just fine without it.

jeffk · May 2007

Request: Have the signature auto recognize emails and convert them to mailto links

sujang · May 2007

Is there a reason why that "NoFunc" function is there? I removed it, and everything seems to be working just fine without it.

I removed this too, because it generated extra b tags. here is the related issue.
Web validation issue # 13

scherem · June 2007

Some users have been asking me to change the color of links when posted in the signature--- how would I modify the css for this?

I have little to no css experience.

lech · June 2007

Time to learn a little CSS then :)

scherem · June 2007

well played Lech. Well played. Any sites you recommend for starters?

lech · June 2007

google turns up quite a few tutorials ranging from beginner to advanced. It's fairly broad but there's always Zeldman or A List Apart if you want to learn just techniques. I suggest searching for simple tutorials, it's not that difficult to grasp the syntax of CSS but more of a difficulty of imagining how properties you set are applied before you even refresh.

As for your links question, you want to find specifically WHICH child link (a, a:link, a:hover and so on) referencing which parent ID (or globally all of them) you wish to apply the color:#00f; or background:#222; There's only a little bit of math involved when mixing colors but you can do it in many ways. Decimal or Hexadecimal RGB values are quite common.

Herrgeist · July 2007

Is there a way to have the signatures display more than one line?

Sasquatch · July 2007

I second that suggestion!

bashobuddha · August 2007

Hi there, I can't seem to get this functional on my forums. I have followed the instructions - i see where to edit the sig, but nothing shows up. Any suggestions?

NickE · August 2007

hmm, if you've correctly applied the modification and have entered a signature for youself it should be showing up under your comments. your preference should be set, by default, to 'show signatures in comments', but maybe for some reason it was disabled?

@herrgeist & tilesone: allowing for multiple line signatures in the rendering of them wouldn't be a problem, but the extension uses vanilla's built-in method for handling the input of the signatures, which, as far as I know, only allows for single-line inputs. If you feel up to it then by all means implement your own way of retrieving (multiline) input, but to be honest I don't really feel like it.

ithcy · August 2007

allow <br /> tags?

[-Stash-] · August 2007

I like your style ithcy =D

Tiggr · August 2007

Hi!

Hi there, I can't seem to get this functional on my forums. I have followed the instructions - i see where to edit the sig, but nothing shows up. Any suggestions?

Yes, have U done this:

Please note that this requires a very small modification to one file:

1. Open up themes/comments.php
2. Find the line: 
            $CommentList .= $Comment->Body.'
3. Replace the found line with this one: 
            $CommentList .= $Comment->Body.(defined('EXTENSION_IN_SIGNATURES') ? SignatureRender(@$Row['AuthUserPrefs']) : '').'

I took this direct from the description/readme!

Tiggr

conradslater · September 2007

is there a way to limit the size or file type of images - a lot of my users are posting huge animated .gif images in their sigs to cause trouble

[-Stash-] · September 2007

Heh, now you see the reason for KISS and this extension not enabling images by default. Hope someone can help you with that...

NickE · September 2007

I don't think you can do anything on the server-side, as the images will be hosted on different servers. what you could do, if you wanted, is a) modify the html replacement in default.php to limit the dimensions of the image (eg. with css), or b) simply remove that regular expression/replacement pair all-together.

Tiggr · September 2007

Hi!

What have I done wrong, if vanilla does'n show any signature after update?

I have remodified the comments.php.

Bye
Tiggr

conradslater · September 2007

yeah I've lost them as well
http://youchewpoop.com/forum

Now working!

Tiggr · October 2007

What have you done, to get it working?

Tiggr · October 2007

Strange, if I change 'comments.php' inside 'themes/colorful_sky/', it doesn't do any good, vanilla ignores this file. But changing it in the default 'themes/', it works!

conradslater · October 2007

sorry tiggr - I'd missed the replacement line above (thinking it was an adjustment to the extension itself)

Inkscape · November 2007

When a user once defined a signature but deleted it afterwards, Vanilla still keeps adding the signature code to his/her postings although the signature is empty. I made a little screenshot to show you what I mean.

Is it a bug? Can we somehow integrate a check if the signature is not empty before adding the code to the postings?

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