Signature not working

scorpious · Worker Joined: Dec 03, 2005 Posts: 107

Hi All

Help needed here. I have downloaded and installed the new raven Version 2.02.02, however, we cannot get the signatures to show only the code shows. We have set everything to allow a sig to be shown but it will still not show.

We have an account with photobucket.com where we link our sigs from.

Any help will be appriecated.

Many thanks

John

evaders99 · Moderator Joined: Apr 30, 2004 Posts: 2762

You must be doing it through the Forums Profile and you must use BBCode
For example

[img]http://www.mysite.com/image.jpg[/img]

scorpious · Worker Joined: Dec 03, 2005 Posts: 107

Hi evaders99

I have enabled BBcode in the admin also ticked attach my signature, we have entered through the forum Your Account and placed the code in the sig box and ticked always allow BBcode however, we can still only see the code and not the signature, we know the sig works because we use it on another PHPnuke site. This is the code for the sig. I have removed the first [IMG] or the sig will show instead of the code, see its great here, lol

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Many thanks

John

UPDATE

I have got the signature to work, after aloads of Bang Head

I have a 100meg webspace with my internet provider, so, I uploaded the image to there and then in the signature box I place the new code [IMG]http:// new address/angle.jpg[/IMG], went back into the forum and the signature now shows.

The original signature code is from photobucket, if anyone is having the same problem try the above, place the image on another server/webspace as most ISP give you free webspace and then link it too the new address.

John

flid · Hangin' Around Joined: Dec 26, 2005 Posts: 31

Just a note on this. I discovered that if you update your signiture via your account it doesnt always work, but doing it via profile on the forum does.

montego · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 5:32 pm

Correct. That issue has been corrected in the upcoming 2.10.00 release.

khaled_dxb · Hangin' Around Joined: Jan 15, 2007 Posts: 28

Hi, i was just about to ask about this as it is happening on my site - which i updated to 2.10.01 a few months back! if i update my signature via the "Your Account" it doesnt work, it shows the html code!

so after reading this thread - i did it from forum profile and it worked perfectly... however it got cut way before the 255 char limit? any idea why that would happen? it doesnt get cut if i use Your Account, however, doing that way goes back to problem number 1...

Update: I just tried to add the very same signature here - and it's doing the same thing, it cuts it off just after EF100

Below is the signature code:

Code:

Any ideas?

montego · Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:45 pm

All that I can offer is that phpBB is storing some of the characters in encoded format, which can be much larger, and I suspect that the BBCode may be even worse. It seems to me to be a pretty restrictive field size. Sad

khaled_dxb · Hangin' Around Joined: Jan 15, 2007 Posts: 28

can it be increased at all?

montego · Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:09 am

I am sure that it could be, but you would need to do the analysis to determine if there is HTML code (i.e., input tag maxlength) restrictions and/or PHP code which expects a certain size.

(Sorry, don't have the time to do this analysis for you.)

evaders99 · Moderator Joined: Apr 30, 2004 Posts: 2762

You may want to check in the database whether user_sig is a limited variable character. VARCHAR(255) would indicate it only stores 255 characters. You could change that to TEXT to get essential no limit

loraxx · Regular Joined: Jan 24, 2008 Posts: 58

I have raven 2.10.01 and the only way I can get my sig to show up is if I enter it in the forum admin panel which of course not accessible to users. Please help I would like my users to add sigs from account and then my info.

THanks !!

montego · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 6:57 am

loraxx, actually, each user will have access to their own profile through the forums to change their signature. All my 2.10.01 work that way just fine... Wink

loraxx · Regular Joined: Jan 24, 2008 Posts: 58

Thanks. I website I was questioning is a new one and currently does not have many members to test.

Thanks again montego. I appreciate your help. Smile