hmmm ... seen this in action on another forum recently ... it was pretty nice.

how about adding a simple line above the signature ???

Could even get really fancy and offer this as a uer profile option ...

what you others think?

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openoffice + gimp + sketch ...

good idea.

Maybe specify a character like * or - and the code automatically produces the line so all are the same length.

$sig_bar = '*' x 75;

Or perhaps I could just add a template tag [line] which would add a <hr> tag and then people could put it in their own signatures as they like.

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Jason Rhinelander
Gossamer Threads
jason@gossamer-threads.com

Hmm do you think the hr under the subject line and another hr above the sig would look too cluttered?

It would be cool if we could change the hr properties like [line color="#FFFFFF" noshade]

yep, yep, yep,

First I was gonna suggest just a simple

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tag which could be used as the standard default option, but Paul is actually in tune with me on this one. It would be nice to go with a favorite character or even just being able to change the html properties of the line.

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openoffice + gimp + sketch ...

As much as I hate to admit it, that's currently a little out of the scope for template tags. Tags like [url ...] ... [/url], [email]...[/email], are currently hard-coded. The custom markup extendibility comes when you want to add something simple - like [line] => <hr> or [:)] => <img whatever>. There _IS_, however, a plugin hook for converting markup, so something that allowed for custom [line] tags would be possible to do. It is doubtful that it will make it into the core of the code before the final (1.0.0) release, however if someone else doesn't experiment with making a plugin then I suppose I could write one up.

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Jason Rhinelander
Gossamer Threads
jason@gossamer-threads.com

I posted this problem awhile back in this forum...
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Cheers,
Me

I'll have a go but err..........

seems like a lot of ideas are being repeated recently ... should've checked for your post.

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openoffice + gimp + sketch ...

Hi:

I hate ressurecting this old thread, but I thought it better than starting a new one on the same subject...

Anyway, I do want to put a seperator between the message body and the appended sig... I have been all over the templetes, and it looks like the sig is added when the message is first saved. OK, so where is that? I just want to add a simple <HR> tag between the body and the <%user_signature%> tag.... I just cannot find were!



Thanks!
dave

Big Cartoon DataBase
Big Comic Book DataBase

You want to do this just for yourself (like mine), or for everyone, automatically?

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Jason Rhinelander
Gossamer Threads
jason@gossamer-threads.com

Jagerman:

Thanks! I would like to make it automatic for everyone. If I could figure out the place that <%post_message%> is combined to <%user_signature%>, I would like to hard code it to be:

<%post_message%> . <P><HR><P> . <%user_signature%>
dave

Big Cartoon DataBase
Big Comic Book DataBase

If you check the "Append signature to post" checkbox, it adds '[signature]' to the end of your post. [signature] is not really anything special just a markup tag that gets replaced with your signature - you can put it in a post as an ordinary markup tag if you want:

So, as to where to change this, there is a plugin hook called 'convert_signature' in GForum::Convert which is responsible for the substitution. The change would be simple - instead of:

it'd be:

In fact, seeing as this is a nice simple change, I think I'll add it, as a config option, to 1.2.0

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Jason Rhinelander
Gossamer Threads
jason@gossamer-threads.com

Jagerman:

Thanks do much for letting me know where to look- I was in the templetes.... and from there to gforum.cgi, post.pm... I doubt I would have found this ever!

Thanks for adding it to 1.2... If I could make one MORE suggestion, if yu are going to do that anyway, you might want to add a variable "sig_seperate" or something.... so a user could do:

<BR><HR><B>

<P><HR><P>

<P>----------------------------------<P.

or whatever they liked!

(Wow- now I am part of forum code... cool!)

Thanks!
dave

Big Cartoon DataBase
Big Comic Book DataBase

I added two configuration variables under Setup -> Markup: 'markup_signature_prefix' and 'markup_signature_suffix' - an admin can define them to be whatever they way (it defaults to nothing).

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Jason Rhinelander
Gossamer Threads
jason@gossamer-threads.com

OK, slight problem....

the <HR> appears if someone does NOT have a signature, too. Can I do something like



else {

if $$sig {

'<br>--------------------------<p>' . $$sig

}

else {

$$sig

}/egi
dave

Big Cartoon DataBase
Big Comic Book DataBase

Try these - Convert replaces admin/GForum/Convert.pm, and setup_markup.html replaces admin/templates/admin/setup_markup.html. Then just go to Setup -> Markup, and you'll have the two new options. I made it only add the prefix/suffix only if there actually is a signature that contains something other than spaces.

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Jason Rhinelander
Gossamer Threads
jason@gossamer-threads.com

Jagerman:

Sorry for the extra work I caused you! But it works like acharm! thanks!
dave

Big Cartoon DataBase
Big Comic Book DataBase

Hi Jagerman,

When is 1.2.0 expected - and is there a list of changes/features somewhere?

Klaus

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http://www.ameinfo.com

Hi Jason,

Is it possible to have the french version of Convert.pm with the signature feature?

Thank you!

François

Hi François,

I've attached the french Convert.pm, but I don't yet have the french translations for the template - the attached template is the french translation, but the descriptions for the two options are still in english.

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Jason Rhinelander
Gossamer Threads
jason@gossamer-threads.com

Thank you, Jason.

I get "Unknown Tag: 'cfg_markup_signature_prefix'" in the markup signature_prefix field and "Unknown Tag: 'cfg_markup_signature_suffix'" in markup_signature_suffix field.

Thank you,

François

Just add a couple lines at the top of GForum/Config/Data.pm, after the '{', containing:

'markup_signature_prefix' => '',
'markup_signature_suffix' => '',

That should fix it up and allow you to save.

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Jason Rhinelander
Gossamer Threads
jason@gossamer-threads.com

Now I understand why I was not able to add myself the signature feature in french Convert.pm.

Thank you!

Jason:

I've substituted the files and added the markup "br" to my signature on our forum but there seems to be an extra space between the horizontal rule and the start of my signature. (was that the object here, I hope?)

It might be connected to a problem I once told you about. For some reason, carriage returns and blank spaces appear in the signature box of users profiles, even when they don't have a signature. It happens at random and makes for extra empty space at the bottom of posts. I'll go in to users profiles and delete the blanks in a signature but they seem to insert themselves randomly.

Ghost in the machine?

BTW, we should be moving the forum to the new server in the next week or two, but I don't see how this can be connected to our server problems.

Steve

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