Posted by webchick on March 24, 2007 at 8:45pm
So, my holy war ever since I started with Drupal has been to Fix signatures.
I'll try and sum this up as best I can. ;)
There are three main complaints about signatures from people with a phpBB background:
- Signatures don't show up on forum topics, only on forum replies.
- The signatures show up in the comment text box as you're creating (and editing) your reply.
- Signatures are not dynamic; when people update their signatures, they expect it to update on all of their old posts.
So, my goal is to make three patches to core to solve these problems:
Allow turning signatures on/off per node type. If they're on, you see signatures on both nodes and their replies.- I'm not sold on this anymore, and neither is Dries. Doing a different approach now which is to make forums the exception.- Take 'em out. :P Make 'em themable.
- Render signatures on output. Might need to put a toggle in here for this.
That's my plan. Any thoughts?
Update: http://drupal.org/node/130366 is an initial patch that attempts to solve problems 2 and 3. Reviews appreciated! Success! :D This patch will be in the forth-coming Drupal 6!
Update: http://drupal.org/node/132446 attempts to address issue 1. Reviews appreciated!
Comments
Love it
I don't have the skills to help you, but I want to offer you moral support. :) I hope you get your way with this because it makes a lot more sense than what's there now. The signature module seems ok, but I'd love to have one less module on my already module heavy site.
Michelle
Aw, thanks. :D
Aw, thanks. :D
One more thought
One more thought: Make it possible for each user to turn on / off whether (s)he sees the signatures of other users.
May not seem like a big deal, but in some forums people like to put big pictures and long hardware bragging lists in their signatures. It kills readability.
Second that
I'm on a mommy board with some horribly huge signatures. It has that option and I've been tempted on occasion to use it.
Michelle
That sounds like a good contributed module...
I'd rather to leave it simple for core.
If anyone's interested in such a thing though, it will be possible once http://drupal.org/node/130366 goes in. Reviews would be appreciated! :D
On a related note, somewhere
On a related note, somewhere down the line it would be nice to be able to limit the size of signatures. Like making it no more than 3 lines, or disabling images in signatures.
Now that the DrupalCon/OSCMS
Now that the DrupalCon/OSCMS summit is over, I can look at this stuff properly. Will give input on the issue page.
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Dynamic signatures have landed!
http://drupal.org/node/130366 was committed today, and will be in the forth-coming Drupal 6. Hooray!
Please keep an eye on http://drupal.org/node/132446, which will allow signatures to be turned on/off per node type.
Awesome!
Thanks for all your hard work on this. :)
Michelle
Thanks
I'm from a phpbb background (http://www.auctioncut.com) and new to drupal. I certainly appreciate where your coming from webchick & your efforts, Allow members to have signatures can really encourage them to post more. I welcome any such patches.
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