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Originally Posted by nexialys

oh, btw, would it be possible to have such a display for members stats in the member.php page?! would be cute too!

It is possible, included in the instructions.

However, caveat... the images generated are png's. And the sparkline library does not yet accomodate transparent backgrounds, alphas. I could change the sparkline library to work with alphas, but png's with alphas just show as grey/gray in IE.

So right now, what is happening is that I generate an image for each unique background colour that the sparklines appear on.

What this means is that if the image is used both on the members list page (alt2) and on the member info page (alt1), that double the number of images are capable of being produced.

It should be noted that the maximum number of graphs that this can render can be shown as:
# of unique background colours in enabled styles * 3 = # forum home images
+
# of unique background colours in enabled styles * # of users who have posted = # user images

In my case that allows for a maximum of 20,015 images to be created (5 styles, 4,000 users = 20,000 + 15). All are written to the file system and served from there to reduce load... I don't care about disk space, but maybe you care about having 20,015 items in a folder ?

If you add a second background colour to the equation you are doubling the number of user images you'll generate. Unless you set one or the other background colours, such that all places where the image appears uses the same alt colour... in which case, look inside of sparkplug.php and adjust the code