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

[monstergamer]

i got this

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imagecreatefromjpeg() in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/monstergamer.net/httpdocs/vb/signature.php on line 83

[Minots]

@monstergamer
Do you realy have GD2 support in PHP?
It doesn´t look like that.

[monstergamer]

Today at 08:53 PM Minots said this in Post #182
@monstergamer
Do you realy have GD2 support in PHP?
It doesn?t look like that.

they say that they have image magic or some thing like that
is there any way this works with that
cause this is a cool hack

[InfiniteWebby]

is there a way to add a timer inside the script the global.php so that if time is divisible by something then run this, cause my host is a bit tight and wont let me run cronjobs

[Arsenik]

How would i go about having wierd carracteres printed correctly on the created image? It all works for me but i am creating the image with usernames in it and some use weird carracters like ? and so on... When the image is created that becomes an L with a bar on it.... and so on. How can i fix this?

Thanks.

[InfiniteWebby]

it might be the font, the font that is in use on the sig might not contain the character you want.

As for my problem does anyone know how to work out my problem?

I cant get cron so is it possible to add abit of code to say global.php or functions.php that goes

if current time in minute is divisible by say 60 (everyhour)
then include url/to/signature/generator.php

i am no good with times nor where to put this otherwise i would do it myself

also my boards are probably busy enough for someone to run into this code 90% of the time so it shouldnt be that unreliable.

[AmericanWoman]

I get the fatal error message, too, and I have PHP 4.3.1 installed. What do I do?

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imagecreatefromjpeg() in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/forums/images/sig/signature.php

I've been all excited waiting for my lunch break all day so I could experiment with this.

[insanctus]

Mine keeps same number and does not update. It is like the numbers are stickin although if I change the placement that works just numbers not changing

[sweet22]

i keep getting this:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imagecreatefromjpeg() in /home/anima823/public_html/community/signature.php on line 83

[insanctus]

I finaly got mine all worked out. It is was not seeing admins, so I just added 2 to number so it is accurate. Cool add on.