Forum stats on signature image

[high]Remember the forum rules here at vB.org and don't exceed the signature dimensions: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=50062 . Signatures in violation of the rules will be suspended. --filburt1[/high]

Hi all,

What this hack does:
Calls up your Forum statistics (like No. of Members, Threads and Posts) and creates a new image on your server using GD which you can use as a signature image, where ever you like - have a look at my signature and you'll see what I mean. This is only my 2nd hack - so be kind to me

In order to have the image created, say every 15 minutes you will need to set up a cronjob. Infos are provided in the instructions.txt, and alternatives for those who do not have access to crontab on their server.

Support:
Because I'm pretty busy, I will provide only limited support. Will look in here once a week or so.

Credits:
to kars10 for kicking me in the ass and getting me to code this - thanks karsten

greets
tina

Update 23.06.2003
- global.php no longer required, thus when signature image is being created it no longer shows up in "who is onlne"
- quality of image output improved
- debug modus with email notification integrated
- tested with gd2

[Velocd]

>>having all these damn signatures here slows this thread down to a crawl....

ahaha yea, now we're not only dependent on vB.org's server response but everyone else's.

Maybe Filburt?s version where the image is outputted through running the script, but this hack simply saves the outputted image in a directory as a JPG so you can link to it as you would a regular signature image, so there should be no dependency on anyone?s server response, nor that much of a slow down (except for the kilobytes each signature takes of course).

[limey]

Nice hack, I like it. Need to get my cron in order will try overgrow's addon.

[Fi_InCogNiTo]

Yesterday at 02:12 PM Fi_InCogNiTo said this in Post #54
Can someone send me the code to make this do:

Just gather the amount of posts in only one forum for one user?

*example: I want a sig to let people know how many posts are in my news forum just by me.

[NuclioN]

Warning: imagecreatefromjpeg: Unable to open './forum/images/signature/sig.jpg' for reading

[Fi_InCogNiTo]

Today at 01:47 PM NuclioN said this in Post #64
Warning: imagecreatefromjpeg: Unable to open './forum/images/signature/sig.jpg' for reading

Try checking the way you named the directory it's calling for. It's spelled "signatur" in the php file

[base]

also remember to set the proper permissions for the 'signatur' folder - chmod 777 i think it was

[Fi_InCogNiTo]

I'm having a strange problem

Ever since I added this hack, my who's online has been showing 2 guests with almost the same ip(last number is dif in IP). They are always creating a new thread, even though there is never a new thread created, and they are on 24/7.

Screenshot attached

[wooolF[RM]]

]uhm.. what about protecting the folder where signature.jpg is? it is chmodded 777 and anyone can do evil things with it...

BTW, great hack

[Link14716]

wooolF, try this:

PHP Code:

$text = "$numbermembers" . " $totalthreads" . " $totalposts"; 


[wooolF[RM]]

]oh... thnx for the answer... I allready fixed it by defining line spacing as 0

PHP Code:

$zeilenabstand = 0; //Line spacing of stats text 


thnx alot anyway!