[philzilla]

any chance of seeing this hack, after the UBB upgrade? those "sig test" threads are pretty irritating. i know that, as much as it may pain them to do so, a lot of people on the board actually agree with me here

thank you, oh mighty glz

[Earth Mk. II]

yeah... having this would be, as Martha Stewart says, "a good thing"

until then...

postCount++;

[gorgonzola]

I don't quite see how that would be possible to implement ... one possibility is that since post preview is built-in now, we could hack it to display your signature too.

That might work ... we'll have to check to see if it's feasible, though. First we upgrade the board and hack back in the few little things that still aren't included ("last post by" is the biggie), and then we can field some requests for additional UBB hacks.

I suspect this should not be too hard to implement, though.

[tinrib]

Originally posted by gorgonzola:
<STRONG>I don't quite see how that would be possible to implement ... one possibility is that since post preview is built-in now, we could hack it to display your signature too.

That might work ... we'll have to check to see if it's feasible, though. First we upgrade the board and hack back in the few little things that still aren't included ("last post by" is the biggie), and then we can field some requests for additional UBB hacks.

I suspect this should not be too hard to implement, though. </STRONG>

it might be easier just to add a 'refresh page' link on the topic view which calls some of the same functions as 'reply' b- rebuilding the page (and thus refreshing sigs/post-counts) without adding a message. Not as nice/obvious, but a ten minute hack. When are you upgrading the board - are you going to the SQL UBB? It would be great to have a decent search function. The current implementation of search is awful. It seems like the posts aren't indexed and the search reads every message looking for search terms. Dreadfully inefficient! In fact I can't believe it's that bad but it certainly isn't good!

[mitchell_pgh]

I think we should switch to PHPBB. I think it's much more flexable...

[IUJHJSDHE]

Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
<STRONG>I think we should switch to PHPBB. I think it's much more flexable...</STRONG>

No way! UBB FOR EVER!

[dawho9]

Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
<STRONG>I think we should switch to PHPBB. I think it's much more flexable...</STRONG>

I second this. Why pay, when you can get it for free and its a better product.

[philzilla]

Originally posted by gorgonzola:
<STRONG>I don't quite see how that would be possible to implement ... )</STRONG>

you could always try this:

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre><font size=1 face=courier>##################################### ########
# Script: Signature Preview <font color = blue>1.1</font> Beta A
# Author: MasterMind
# Email: ubbdev@h-realms.com
#############################################
# Note: Backup your files! Report any bugs.
#############################################

##OPEN:
#ubb_profile.cgi

find:

# convert signature
$Signature = &reverse_ubb_code(<font color = red>"$user_profile[<font color = blue>12</font>]"</font>);
$Signature =~ s/&lt;p&gt;/\n\r\n/isg;

replace with:

# convert signature
$user_profile[<font color = blue>12</font>] =~ s/(\[IMG\])(\S+?)(\[\/IMG\])/ &lt;IMG SRC=<font color = red>"$<font color = blue>2</font>"</font>&gt; /isg;
$Signature = &reverse_ubb_code(<font color = red>"$user_profile[<font color = blue>12</font>]"</font>);
$Signature =~ s/&lt;p&gt;/\n\r\n/isg;

##OPEN:
#public_edit_profile.pl

find:

print &lt;&lt;THISFIELD;

&lt;tr bgcolor=<font color = red>"$vars_style{BGColor}"</font>&gt;
&lt;td valign=<font color = red>"top"</font> width=<font color = red>"<font color = blue>45</font>%"</font>&gt;
&lt;FONT size=<font color = red>"$vars_style{TextSize}"</font> FACE=<font color = red>"$vars_style{FontFace}"</font>&gt;
$B1
$vars_wordlets{signature_field}
$B2:
&lt;BR&gt;
&lt;FONT SIZE=<font color = red>"<font color = blue>1</font>"</font>&gt;
$vars_wordlets{signatures_explained} $ImagesWording&lt;/FONT&gt;
&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;TEXTAREA NAME=<font color = red>"signature"</font> ROWS=<font color = red>"<font color = blue>5</font>"</font> COLS=<font color = red>"<font color = blue>35</font>"</font>&gt;
$Signature
&lt;/TEXTAREA&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;

THISFIELD

under it add:

print &lt;&lt;SIGPREV;
&lt;tr bgcolor=<font color = red>"$vars_style{BGColor}"</font>&gt;
&lt;td valign=<font color = red>"top"</font> width=<font color = red>"<font color = blue>45</font>%"</font>&gt;
&lt;FONT size=<font color = red>"$vars_style{TextSize}"</font> FACE=<font color = red>"$vars_style{FontFace}"</font>&gt;
$vars_wordlets{sig_prev}
&lt;BR&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;FONT size=<font color = red>"$vars_style{TextSize}"</font> FACE=<font color = red>"$vars_style{FontFace}"</font>&gt;
$user_profile[<font color = blue>12</font>]
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/font&gt;
SIGPREV

open vars_wordlets.cgi and find:

details =&gt; <font color = red>"Details"</font>,

under add:

sig_prev =&gt; <font color = red>"Signature Preview:"</font>,

#DONE#</font>[/code]

[philzilla]

hmm. while we're on a preview theme here, how about we're able to preview our posts too?