Another Weird Problem

[Renmiri]

What's up with this thread ?
http://forums.eyesonff.com/showthread.php?t=79861&page=2

All I can see is the first page and the first message on page 2. All the remaining 43 replies, including mine don't show up, and the layout looks ghastly! Is it just me ?

Ren

[Old Manus]

I think his signature messed up

[o_O]

Yes. If you look in the source, he has this in his signature:


<!--<img src="http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f94/kingmatt86/RhianSig2.jpg" border="0" alt="" />

The result of which is to comment out the rest of the page.

[Endless]

Just PM <s>a mod/admin</s> <a href="http://forums.eyesonff.com/member.php?u=22">BoB</a> and ask him to fix Lady Yunalesca's sig edit out.

[Samuraid]

Fixed.

[Flying Mullet]

You're not <a href="http://forums.eyesonff.com/member.php?u=22">BoB</a>! :aimmad:

[Leeza]

I don't think that was my sig edit, but I think it's time for the Mods to stop using those comment out tags and just go for deleting the whole sig at all times because this sort of problem of members not removing the tags is increasing.

[RSL]

I've never commented out a sig before. I just delete them (not that I do a whole lot of sig policing.)

[Dr Unne]

Back in The Day, if the sig was something especially elaborate in terms of source code, I'd copy/paste it into a text file so if someone whined about it, I could give them the code. Then I'd delete it. That's what I did for those 3-4 sigs I ever edited.

[Leeza]

I still do that for every sig that I edit/remove, Dr Unne. I have a file full of editted/removed sigs that I have copy/pasted so I guess just plain old removing them instead of commenting them out is what I will do from now on. :)

[RSL]

Oh wow. I just delete them. I remember The Man got pretty mad about that one time. I also remember not losing much sleep over it!

[Leeza]

My current file has 438 removed sigs and I have others saved from when I reformatted.

[Xaven]

My current file has 438 removed sigs and I have others saved from when I reformatted.
They don't pay you enough. :(

[Samuraid]

We should either do what Leeza said, or just disable HTML altogether. :p:p

[bipper]

We should either do what Leeza said, or just disable HTML altogether. :p:p

*Pumps his sawed off ten gauge and cracks a malacious grin* Feelin lucky?

OOC: Can't you make a HTML verifications script? I have had to do this a billion times. Basically script that will run through and close all tags left open. TidyHTML would be a good source to look at. Of course, only call the function when a user actually posts, not upon queries. :p

[Meat Puppet]

I'm with Leeza on this one.

[Samuraid]

HTML validation would be great, but the general consensus is "don't mess with the vB code directly because it makes support and upgrades take about 10 times as much work."

[bipper]

OOP?:D

[Old Manus]

My current file has 438 removed sigs and I have others saved from when I reformatted.
Leeza is a KILLING MACHINE

[crono_logical]

HTML validation would be great, but the general consensus is "don't mess with the vB code directly because it makes support and upgrades take about 10 times as much work."It also encourages sloppy HTML as people expect it to be fixed automatically for them :p

[bipper]

but the issue that is trying to be avoided constists of sloppy coding alread :p I gotta get me a handle on Vbulletin source. Is it fairly OOP or it it just teh sux?

[Samuraid]

It's mostly procedural, with a few parts (like the database layer) as classes.

[Renmiri]

Gaahhh... Hate/love OOP. Hate it when I have to debug it, since I learned procedural back in the days I went to College and I rip off half my hair to find my way around it ;) Love it because it makes so much more sense and is way more powerful than procedural.