Plugin Request: PHP in admin's signature

[Phillip Chapman]

I have a hack request that I was hoping that someone could kindly assist with.

I am admin of my forum and I would like to call an outside PHP script in my signature. All of the other members would use standard signatures (with vB code, no HTML and a 125 character limit). I've tried signature hacks that allow HTML but the PHP call doesn't seem to work properly.

If someone could help with this it would be a big help. There has got to be a way to do it.

Here is the PHP I'd like to include in my sig...

<?php
$username = "muppetcentral";

if(isset($_GET["afl"])) {
$afl = 1;
$url = "http://www.live365.com/pls/front?handler=playlist&cmd=view&handle=afl%3A" . $username;
} else {
$std = 1;
$url = "http://www.live365.com/pls/front?handler=playlist&cmd=view&handle=" . $username;
}

$fp = fopen($url, "r");
while($line = fgets($fp, 255)) {
if(ereg( "artist:\"([^\"]*)\"", $line, $regs)) {
$artist[] = $regs[1];
} else if(ereg( "title:\"([^\"]*)\"", $line, $regs)) {
$title[] = $regs[1];
} else if(ereg( "album:\"([^\"]*)\"", $line, $regs)) {
$album[] = $regs[1];
}
}
fclose($fp);

for($i=0; $i<=2; $i++) {
if($artist[$i] != "") {
$_artist = $artist[$i];
$_title = $title[$i];
$_album = $album[$i];
break;
}
}

$_album_disp = ereg_replace(":", "-", $_album);
$_album_disp = ereg_replace("/", "-", $_album_disp);
$_album_disp = ereg_replace("?", "-", $_album_disp);
$_artist_disp = ereg_replace(":", "-", $_artist);
$_artist_disp = ereg_replace("/", "-", $_artist_disp);

?>

<p><strong>Now Playing:</strong>
<?= $_title ?>
-
<?= $_artist ?>

[Gizmo999]

I'd be interested in a similar feature to allow selected users to use php displaying info from itunes ( I already have a program generating the track info and code)

[Phillip Chapman]

Great! I'm sure such a hack would be of interest to many users. Hopefully, somek kind soul will assist with getting this implemented.

[derekivey]

I'll see if I can make this.

Derek

EDIT: Nevermind, I don't know how to make it, maybe another code will be able to.

[Phillip Chapman]

Thank you Derek for taking the time to try this. What do you think the difficulty is in performing this hack? Maybe the info can help someone else overcome it.

[derekivey]

I'm not sure how hard it would be to do. I have never made any bbcode before so I thought I'd try it but it looks way too hard for me :(.

[Phillip Chapman]

Thanks for giving it a try Dereck. Hopefully some other kind soul will assist with this request.

[Phillip Chapman]

Just wanted to bump this request up to see if anyone was willing to help make this happen...

[Farjad]

anyone :blink:

[Phillip Chapman]

Here's another bump for this hack request. Seems like we have several folks who would be interested in such a hack if anyone would kindly be willing to devote their talents to the cause.

[Zachery]

Why can't you export that to an image? Or possibly set it all as a varible, pop it in the plugin system and assign it to yourself with a template edit to the postbit.

[Phillip Chapman]

Or possibly set it all as a varible, pop it in the plugin system and assign it to yourself with a template edit to the postbit.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm willing to try this, but I'll need explicit step-by-step instructions as I'm not familiar with the process. If you can provide some more detail it would be most appreciated.