Theoretical Question

[mendhak]

Let's say I open up a thread. It's one of those long threads in chit-chat.

Further, say I'm on a not-so-fast connection. The page has a lot of posts by member XYZ on top, all the way to the bottom.

While the page is just in the middle of loading for me, member XYZ changes his signature. Will this change be reflected in the bottom few posts?

In other words, does it become possible for a page to display two different signatures on a single page for the same member?

[crptcblade]

Theoretically, yes.

Practically, maybe.

Supposedly, no.

[Electroman]

Posted by mendhak
Let's say I open up a thread. It's one of those long threads in chit-chat.

Further, say I'm on a not-so-fast connection. The page has a lot of posts by member XYZ on top, all the way to the bottom.

While the page is just in the middle of loading for me, member XYZ changes his signature. Will this change be reflected in the bottom few posts?

In other words, does it become possible for a page to display two different signatures on a single page for the same member?

No only the posts content is saved, the signiture part is fetched from the profile each time a post by that user is shown .

If you want it to appear as if your post is static on a particular post then you can disable your sig for that post then at the end of your post put your signiture in (like I've done on this post )

Causes problems if someone quotes your post too .

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[mendhak]

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[brad jones]

This site is primarily PHP. I assume that PHP operates like ASP in that the Web page is generated on the server and then sent to the requestor. As such, the answer to your question would be no, the signature would be the same because the page should be fully generated before being sent to you. Thus, your transfer speed has no impact on the content.

Granted, ifan update of a server was done during the nanoseconds that the page is being generated on the server, then you could have the situation described; however, statistically this is not probable.

Brad!

[mendhak]

Originally posted by mendhak

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Wasn't me!

[Danial]

Originally posted by brad jones
This site is primarily PHP. I assume that PHP operates like ASP in that the Web page is generated on the server and then sent to the requestor. As such, the answer to your question would be no, the signature would be the same because the page should be fully generated before being sent to you. Thus, your transfer speed has no impact on the content.

Granted, ifan update of a server was done during the nanoseconds that the page is being generated on the server, then you could have the situation described; however, statistically this is not probable.

Brad!

I dont think it is possible under any given scenario, since the query is first perormed before any output are written/sent. So if the changes occurs after the query was executed those changes wont be reflected.

So agree with your first paragraph. Not the second part