Originally posted by Dr Unne
It would involve at least editing the user control panel template to include a new option, creating a new server-side variable to every user to use as a flag, adding three more server-side variables at least for storing the font attributes the user sets, and hacking the php code for displaying posts to include a check against each user's flag in every post to see whether to display the fonts stuff or not. We've had bad experiences in the past with hacking the .php's. Last time we had headers and all the other extra stuff, we ended up wiping the VBB clean and installing it fresh to get rid of it all. Last time, one "little" hack led to another "little" hack until the MB was bogged down so much it was hardly usable. The option for the signatures comes installed with the VBB standard, I believe, so it's different than writing a hack. The people who wrote the sig code wrote the rest of the VBB code too, they probably know what they're doing. But I don't really know all that much about php, I might be wrong about all of that.
Ouch. Perish the thought, then.

Well, if anyone can figure out a way to do it easily, then I'd say go for it. I know next to nothing about vBulletin code myself, so yeah.

If you could get the signature code from the company that make vBulletin yourself, then that would make the hack a lot easier, I'd guess. I suppose there might also be some way to test it out on a smaller mock-message board or something, but I don't know about that, either.

Peace
The Man