Forum stats on signature image

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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

[Dean C]

Nice hack - thanks for releasing

- miSt

[Dan]

feh...... my server doesn't let me do cronjobs and that fake cron thing won't work for some reason

/me tried for 5 hours to set it up and gives up.

Nice hack anyways....

[Overgrow]

I don't have mine cronned yet.. just run the php script every once in a while. Won't be instant updates but no big deal.

You could also do something like this at the top of global:

PHP Code:

if (mt_rand(1,500)=='42' or $updatesigstats!=''){
  require_once('/home/yourdir/sigstats.php'); // the full script name of your sig updater
} 


About once in every 500 page views, it will update the signature stats. Or you can attach "&updatesigstats=on" to any URL and have it run the script as well.

[Fi_InCogNiTo]

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.

[GoTTi]

I dont understand, i have the recent version of PHP installed (4.3.1) and GD 2.0 or higher is not on my server!

I requested it be installed.

[Mr L]

Good hack, but the Cron job does not work, yet if I run it manually it is fine.

Can anybody confirm if they have it running via a Cron job and also if they modified the code?

Thanks.

[Shepski]

great hack but does anyone know how to get the thing to run on an NT server. fakecron doesnt seem to do it.

Edit: found it in the scheduler althought it isnt very obvious

[TheEDIGuy]

I have it running on a cron, works perfectly.

[Mr L]

Today at 12:20 PM TheEDIGuy said this in Post #58
I have it running on a cron, works perfectly.

Ok, so it must be my setup.

Did you have to give any additional permissions to the .php to run as a Cron and could you tell me what directory you put it in please?

Currently mine is running in /forums/ and works when manually executed but not as a Cron job. However I have other Cron jobs setup and working such as ones for Hivemail.

Thanks.

[squawell]

i have a question...

when i add a new variable but it did not show up??why??

where do i doing wrong?