Inactive Members Lose Signature in vBulletin

[John Scott]

How do I do this? I want inactive member's signatures to not display.

[jeet]

I haven't used vbulletin myself, but I think it stores the last login/post time of all members. When you display threads, check this time, subtract it from current time, and if it's less than what you want, put the signature between <!-- --> html code.

Although I really think that won't be fair to "old" members who have contributed to the forum with useful help/ posts.
You can instead do a check of "reputation" points/ number of posts etc before a signature can go live.
Thanks

[Arenlor]

Using MySQL you can check their last login, and "SELECT * FROM signatures WHERE lastlogin >= NOW(-so_many_seconds)" instead of just selecting the signatures. Edit as needed, I right my own forums so I don't know how to edit this.

[Paul M]

What is your definition of an inactive member ?

[John Scott]

Not logged in in over 6 months.

[Arenlor]

1555200 seconds. Only pull those that are from there to now. where last_login >= now(-1555200) ^_^

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by John Scott

Not logged in in over 6 months.

A small plugin should be able to do that. I'll see what I can do over the weekend.

[John Scott]

Thanks Paul.

[Nick]

FYI, I also noticed that banned members still are able to display their Latest Blog: posts....

ie. http://www.v7n.com/forums/529897-post1.html

Might want to fix that.

[joeychgo]

Great idea!

[Cricket]

Originally Posted by Nick

FYI, I also noticed that banned members still are able to display their Latest Blog: posts....

That bothered me a bit too...

[Gurpartap]

Wherever is the signature loading code within vB, you can put a condition of activity. vB already stores last login time or so, check that timestamp, compare with 'now' [time()], if difference is 6 months+, break, else do. This is just concept, which you might have already thought of. Could put further code helping out with time comparisons though, or maybe it is already accomplished, is it?