MPDev's Graffiti Wall v1

The Graffiti Wall is a simple script where people can "paint" text onto a brick wall. You can see an example of the vB3 integration on ExtremeFitness.Com.

I also use an img src with half sized dimensions to preview the wall on my Summary page which can be seen on ViperAlley.Com; this could also be added to your portal pages for greater exposure.

Features
. Fully integrated with vB3 for styles/users
. Admin/Mods can "wipe board"
. Optional logging of paints to log file

This is a very simple mod to install; there is one self contained .php script, a few fonts and a bricks.jpg file to upload.

Requirements
. Your server must have GD2 support (GD1 support may work, but not tested) for PNG files including TTF support.

Be kind and click INSTALL if you use this mod.

[MPDev]

On line 133 there is a typo. Should be:

That's what I get for copying someone elses post, lol. My bad.

one question....i have this same img on the fly code in another site...the same people who cant see it there cant see the paints on the wall....any idea what thier problem could be? last person to tell me was on ie6.0...but ive had people with just about every browser tell me the same. its weird cause 99% of people see it fine.

No idea, its not on-the-fly code - its a PNG file that is displayed over a JPG image with a transparent background.

It only accepts a max of 50, anymore and it times out?

I don't really recommend that many characters anyways; but I would think larger strings might cause a problem (it probably can't find a random place to put it).

Is there anyway to prevent the use of some colours? Black and grey don't come out at all

Colors are done lines 94-101. I don't use black or grey, so might be your setup.

Does anyone here HOTM calling him????

Thanks!

[vulture]

Would it be possible to have the log going to the database instead of a file?

My users are loving this.

[frankenberrie]

Installed:
http://www.arcadecrazy.com/thearcade/wall.php

[twoseven]

Originally Posted by vulture

Would it be possible to have the log going to the database instead of a file?

My users are loving this.

yea it is it would make another query tho and you would have to add a new table with a text area and a ip area but with the log being in a file its that much easier to edit

[MPDev]

I use a flat file for the simple reason that I didn't want to write up an install script for the mod; keeping it as simple as possible to install/use. Writing the data to a database means having a method of reading it and possibly doing other things with it and I didn't want to write an entire Admin Module for it.

Also, I found that when I wiped the wall after X posts, users would figure this out and write junk to the board so that they could get a clean board from which to post their stuff. It kind of defeated the purpose since people could predictibly erase the board and those who posted towards the end got the least amount of exposure. You might be better off using some kind of random number instead of a fixed one.

[DR?@M W?@V?R]

Do you think there will be a template version so that one can put the wall in a table in the custom template to fit in with the board design.

[MPDev]

Maybe someday; but its not on my short list. Depends how much of a demand there is for it and what my time is like.

[sabret00the]

i got it to fit with a board the board design on my site DW it's not actually that hard

which random colour is the brown, i really want to remove that, it's annoying as **** lol

[Muderman24]

I'm getting this

Warning: imagettfbbox(): Could not find/open font in /wall.php on line 109

Warning: imagettftext(): Could not find/open font in /wall.php on line 123

Warning: imagepng(): Unable to open '/gfxgamers.net/forums/graffiti.png' for writing in /wall.php on line 125

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/gfxgamers.net/httpdocs/forums/includes/init.php:27) in /wall.php on line 128

any ideas?

[MPDev]

I'd say your path is incorrectly set. Should be:

/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/gfxgamers.net/httpdocs/forums