Sig Maker: Dynamic Forum Signature Image

This mod makes it so you can display your site name, user name, user title, join date, and post count on a dynamic JPG image. It can be used as a forum signature on forums allowing in signatures.

Requirements: (1) you need to have PHP compiled with the GD image library, and (2) you need either $_SERVER['SCRIPT_URL'] or $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] available on your server. To see if you meet the requirements, check the README.txt file in the ZIP archive.

You can use whatever JPG image you want for the backdrop. See screenshot, which uses white text on a black to blue gradient. Of course, you can change the text color and make a fancier backdrop.

Please, click install should you use this mod. Thanks.

Fine Print: This mod provides up-to-date information on the image, and that means a query per request, so if you are concerned about queries, this mod may not be for you.

[Jsm]

This looks like wat i need
/me installs

[Jsm]

/me couldnt get it to work

[theodonnells]

Works great thanks a lot.... :nervous:

[lazyseller]

Is there a way to display custom profile fields ?

[Replicators]

This doesn't work on any other forum except vb

[Mr Chad]

Originally Posted by Replicators

This doesn't work on any other forum except vb

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=102551 uses a cron that creates the image every X minites, and you use a .jpg image to show it. So you dont need to enable php in sigs. Only diff thing about this one is that it uses member names.

[calorie]

From the release post...

It can be used as a forum signature on forums allowing [img]http://www.your-domain.com/forum/usersig1.php[/img] in signatures.

If you want to use this mod on forums that don't allow the BB code [img] tag like above, then yes, you'd need to write the image to a file like chatbum's mod.

However, if you frequent vB forums, then assuming said forums allow the BB code [img] tag in signatures, then you don't need to write the image to a file.

If I would have seen chatbum's mod prior to releasing this mod, I wouldn't have bothered, but as it is, you can change this mod to write the image to a file, or you can change the other mod to display alternative text.

[RMS-Chef]

Not sure if this would help out as a budy of mine added some htaccess for me for my case.

I had a script that I wrote via a tut that wrote some random text to an image. I too needed to technically call "http://mydomain.com/01/whateverimage.php" to display the image. He had me place the following text in a .htaccess in that /01/ directory where the base image and the script was:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.jpg$ /01/$1.php [L]

With that in there, it allowed me to use the more "universally accepted" "http://mydomain.com/01/whateverimage.jpg" and it would in turn return the php file. I had a couple of directories ( /02/, /03/, etc.) that had different base images and I just had to change that small piece in the htaccess code to corispond with whatever directory it was in.

Not sure if any of this could improve usability or if it's even an issue but it allowed me to just use a jpg extention in the IMG tags to call the php script.

[calorie]

Good suggestion RMS-Chef.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule /forum/usersig([0-9]+)\.jpg$ /forum/usersig$1\.php [L]

[IrPr]

chaX!!!