signatures and avatars not visible for guests and bots

[Markas]

signatures and avatars not visible for guests and bots

how to make it? please help it would really save my traffic

[HB]

Not sure how it would save significant bandwidth, but you can bracket HTML you don't want shown in your viewtopic_body.tpl file with this:

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<!-- BEGIN switch_user_logged_in -->
...html only shown to logged in members ...
<!-- END switch_user_logged_in -->

For example, this would hide signatures from guests:

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<!-- BEGIN switch_user_logged_in -->
         <tr>
            <td class="{postrow.ROW_CLASS}" valign="bottom"><span class="postbody">{postrow.SIGNATURE}</span></td>
         </tr>
<!-- END switch_user_logged_in -->

[Markas]

If avatar is uploaded in your forum, it means that every single guest can see it so it would save my traffic, believe me

[HB]

I am still skeptical. Browsers cache those icons and they're not that big anyway. The hits on the SQL database are a more likely culprit for performance issues than the web server falling behind on static images. If you are that tight for bandwidth that you're trying to save on avatars, I would consider another host.

[Markas]

Not sure how it would save significant bandwidth, but you can bracket HTML you don't want shown in your viewtopic_body.tpl file with this:

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<!-- BEGIN switch_user_logged_in -->
...html only shown to logged in members ...
<!-- END switch_user_logged_in -->

For example, this would hide signatures from guests:

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<!-- BEGIN switch_user_logged_in -->
         <tr>
            <td class="{postrow.ROW_CLASS}" valign="bottom"><span class="postbody">{postrow.SIGNATURE}</span></td>
         </tr>
<!-- END switch_user_logged_in -->

does this work with phpbb3? because I tried it, but when I add this code, the avatars and signatures does not appear for members too... not only for guests!!

[HB]

I haven't tried it. My guess it you can substitute the blocks with the V3 style blocks:

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<!-- IF S_USER_LOGGED_IN -->
...
<!-- ENDIF -->