Graphical Signature Generator

[Wayne Luke]

I would like a graphical signature generator to be plugged into vBulletin. The user should be able to select from a pre-determined variety of backgrounds or upload their own. They should then be able to assign text in their choice of fonts to the image to create a custom signature.

Here is a front-end example:
http://www.warcraftrealms.com/sigmaker.php

Instead of pulling information off of a server, it could have three or four input lines for custom text.

[sabret00the]

that's quite sweet, heavy on the gd but very sweet.

[sabret00the]

funnily enough this is quite simple in theory anyway , but simplish anyway someone should make this it's like a days coding i would but i'm already working on something so don't have the time right now.

the biggest problem with this though is managing to store the array of details, i.e. colours, text, etc without it being in the image url, as ofcourse if you can do that the sig will be robbed and modified and the fly.

wonder if you could do urltofile.php?info=serialisedinfo

and then in the file

if ($info)
{
unserialise($info)
}

but how much would that hurt a server to have that thing being served on various probably busy threads, it's an idea.

discuss it people as i'm getting tempted to make it.

[twoseven]

why dont you just put in the info it generates the picture. auto attachs that picture to the sig. and thats all. (to be honest i have no idea how to do images in php). and just have people manually update the level
about that mod they use...that is a very simple php script to grab the data from the client. that in itself seems like a different hack imo.

[Cyricx]

O this would be VERY nice for the non-image inclined users to still be able to have a creative sig

[silly rabbit]

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

I would like a graphical signature generator . . . They should then be able to assign text in their choice of fonts to the image to create a custom signature.

Wayne, I've been searching thru threads and have been looking for something similar perhaps to what you'd like to do. I'd like to upload a small selection of fonts to my Vb server for automatic php conversion into IMG replacement headers but am unsure how to indeed install TTF(true type fonts) onto my server to accomplish this 'l.il feat. I know about WEFT:

Originally Posted by microsoft

Point the WEFT wizard at your site and it will analyze each page, building an accurate picture of their font usage. The tool will then create compressed font objects containing the required characters. Finally the wizard adds code to your pages linking the font objects to them.

The font objects created by WEFT differ from traditional font files in a number of ways. The font objects are compressed and are usually subsetted so that they only contain the characters used by a particular site or page. This means that font object file sizes are much smaller than those of ordinary TrueType or PostScript font files.

. . . but what I want to do is dynamically convert small sections of text on the fly (ie:headers) and I have a php script to do just that but do not know how to load fonts onto my server. The following is from 'help test':

The $font_file variable must be set to the local path (not the URL) of a True Type (TTF) or Open Type (OTF) font on your web server. This is the font that your images will be created with; you?ll need to upload it to the web server from your own computer.

What the php script does is take any header text and convert it on the fly into a custom font IMG (cached) of any size for display on any browser BUT I CAN'T FIND INFO ON STALLING TTF to my server!!!

Suggestions??