Allow sigs after 100 post

Hi,

I want to allow members to use their sigs but I want to keep spammers out.
Where or how in the admincp can you allow signatures after 50 post for example. I would like to set a limit so a member can not display their sig until they have made 50 post.

tia

Hi,

I want to allow members to use their sigs but I want to keep spammers out.
Where or how in the admincp can you allow signatures after 50 post for example. I would like to set a limit so a member can not display their sig until they have made 50 post.

tia

If I'm not mistaken in 3.6 you can control this on a per usergroup setting. You could also create another usergroup then use user promotions so once a member reaches 100 posts he'll then ben promoted to the new usergroup that allows sigs.

Yup, the only way to do it as far as I know is with user groups. :)

The easiest way would be to change the template to not show the sig. The user can still put one in, but it wont be shown in your postbit/memberinfo until the 100 post criteria is met.

Open your postbit template and find

<if condition="$post['signature']">
<!-- sig -->
<div>
__________________<br />
$post[signature]
</div>
<!-- / sig -->
</if>

Replace with

<if condition="$post['signature'] AND $post['posts'] >= 100">
<!-- sig -->
<div>
__________________<br />
$post[signature]
</div>
<!-- / sig -->
</if>

It will still display in their member profile page member.php. If you want to remove it from there too, edit the member template....

search for

<if condition="$show['signature']">
<!-- signature row -->
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[signature]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt1" title="$vbphrase[signature]">$userinfo[signature]</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- / signature row -->
<br />
</if>

Replace with

<if condition="$show['signature'] AND $userinfo['posts'] >= 100">
<!-- signature row -->
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[signature]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt1" title="$vbphrase[signature]">$userinfo[signature]</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- / signature row -->
<br />
</if>

Should work no problems

that doesn't look easier to me...

The problem with usergroups especially on a large board is members don't generally know that promotions aren't instantaneous so you invariably end up with posts like "I've reached 100 posts, where's my signature?" By changing two conditions, you've eliminated the overhead of promotions for a very minor permission set, and changes to the users signature are immediate as soon as they've met the criteria.

A little extra coding now can often payoff large in saved server performance.

ah haaa

Nice code, Gadabout. Thanks