I have done this - you just add "lwp-request" and "Signature Stats Updater" to the Spider List under "Who's Online" vBulletin Options in your AdminCP

I would say you can do it in vB, but I tried that and it doesnt seem to work. I think there are some cron scripts that you can use, you need to ask somebody who knows a tad more about crontabs.

I'd sure still like to find out how to resolve this problem!

The reason the bad graphic in the above post now looks good is that I found the answer on the F5hosting forum.

For those others of you who have been waiting days for the detailed answer on how to make the washed out graphics work -- the answe is (drum roll)

The image you are using has more than 256 colours so the method in the hack will never work. The function they should have used to create the initial image is imagecreatetruecolor and not imagecreate, so if you replace the line

with

it should work.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

make sure the signature.jpg is CMOD to read and write by all, and you can just run the signature.php in your board's CRON once an hour -- and then just use the jpg instead of the php inside ing code.

I will ake this optionalin te net version I am considering making a small admin control panel for signature stats, but I will think about it.

aha, works for me

Yer for some it works fine first time, for others it doesn't. It's not as if the instructions are hard at the least.

It is definately related to the GD version users are working with.

I'm finding that using the vb cron, the post count stats dont update and go blank, but if I click on run manually, it updates fine

I'm having the same problem. What's up with that.

On the GD version -- the first thing I looked into was the version of GD on my server. It was the most recent (as I posted many posts ignored ago). It took me almost five days of being ignored here before I posted the problem at another forum, and to have someone else look at it and give me the proper replacement code for it to work.

I like the hack and don't want to sound ungrateful -- but I made many posts in this thread giving the exact details of the problem and what I did, and they were all ignored. I make one post at F5Hosting -- baddabing-baddaboom, the answer.

I'm hoping we can get the answer to the missing thread and post counts when the signature.php is run as an automatic CRON -- but reappear when you manually run the CRON. However, I'll ask over there if no one here answers.