Signature Stats v3.04

VERSION 3.04
[05/09/2004]

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This Hack is released under an EverythingvB.com FullAttribution-LimitedDerivs-LimitedTranslation License
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This hack allows you to display your forum statistics in an image,whichyou can use as your signature in most forums (like mine).

If you have any trouble, please post here or in my forum for a good response. Please Click INSTALL, otherwise if an important fix becomes available, you will not be notified.

Now with truetype font support and line breaks. Fixed online userscode(was resetting 'most users online'). New easy support for GD2 andbelow.

Attached pixel font for use in your signatures, must be in all capitals, at size 6 to work appropriately.

New! Attached signature colourgenerator application. Useful to work out the colour scheme of yoursignature. Displays the RGB code for picked colour, and also allows forHEX to RGB conversion.

Popular modifications:

• Show newest user in Signature Stats
  https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=544875&postcount=245
  
  
• Amount of games in v3Arcade in signature
  https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=225

If you are upgrading please carry out steps two to four of the instructions.

[TJFweb]

Oh what do you know, I tried the imagecreatetruecolor(etc...) and it worked.

[DWard]

Yer the truecolor and other mode work at different times. O wel. I got signed off from college today for 3 months, so a portion of that time will be spent on this mod for a bit. I'm working on a flash stats thing now, it's getting there.

[Big Kahuna]

Originally Posted by Natch

No - it means that you have an old version of GD - it also means that your server can only produce low-quality images (hence the lack of truecolor support)

I'm having the same problem -- but I have been assured that I have the most current version of GD.

The author of this hack said it had something to to with the defualt vs downloaded font -- but I didn't understand exactly what he was saying. I included the portion of the font code a couple of posts ago so he (or anyone else) could roll me a bone.

[marcel-ea]

I have a other problem i use a jpg and he generate all right only the jpg lose the colors look if they have only 16 colors..

Please help

[cLord]

*INSTALLS*

Is it normal that one guest is added (without IP) to the online userlist when I call this script using cron?

VERY nice script!
cLord

[DWard]

Originally Posted by cLord

*INSTALLS*

Is it normal that one guest is added (without IP) to the online userlist when I call this script using cron?

VERY nice script!
cLord

Yes, to get accurate post data, I needed to add the vbulletin global.php file, which when run is detected in the online users bit.

I will be adding a small mod for my next version to say 'Signature Stats' in the online users bit.

[bhutz]

Hey peeps I am having problems after successfully installing.

I tried to chnage the signature.jpg and sig.jpg for my own but the old one keep appearing, no idea why

So I tried to create signature2.php, signature2.jpg and sig2.jpg but now I get this error

PHP Code:

Warning: imagecreatefromjpeg: Unable to open '/home/bhutz/public_html/signature/sig2.jpg' for reading in /home/bhutz/public_html/forum/signature2.php on line 208 Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in /home/bhutz/public_html/forum/signature2.php on line 225 Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/bhutz/public_html/forum/signature2.php:208) in /home/bhutz/public_html/forum/signature2.php on line 242 


Any ideas anyone? :ermm:

[bhutz]

Originally Posted by bhutz

Any ideas anyone? :ermm:

Ignore me, I think I should have set my image to indexed colour :tired:

In Adobe Photshop....

Image >> Mode > Indexed Colour

Now for me to position the text...should be fun :nervous:

[RapCheck]

sweet, I always wanted one of these

got it working just have to fine tune an image and the text

[RapCheck]

Can someone explain the whole cron thing... I've searched through this thread, and can't really figure it out. I don't have cpanel or anything like that... Don't like all the 'fake' guests on the who's online.

[Natch]

Originally Posted by DWard

Yes, to get accurate post data, I needed to add the vbulletin global.php file, which when run is detected in the online users bit.

I will be adding a small mod for my next version to say 'Signature Stats' in the online users bit.

I have done this - you just add "lwp-request" and "Signature Stats Updater" to the Spider List under "Who's Online" vBulletin Options in your AdminCP

[DWard]

Originally Posted by RapCheck

Can someone explain the whole cron thing... I've searched through this thread, and can't really figure it out. I don't have cpanel or anything like that... Don't like all the 'fake' guests on the who's online.

I would say you can do it in vB, but I tried that and it doesnt seem to work. I think there are some cron scripts that you can use, you need to ask somebody who knows a tad more about crontabs.

[Big Kahuna]

Originally Posted by Big Kahuna

OK what am I doing wrong?

I get :




when the graphic looks like this:

I'd sure still like to find out how to resolve this problem!

[Big Kahuna]

The reason the bad graphic in the above post now looks good is that I found the answer on the F5hosting forum.

For those others of you who have been waiting days for the detailed answer on how to make the washed out graphics work -- the answe is (drum roll)

The image you are using has more than 256 colours so the method in the hack will never work. The function they should have used to create the initial image is imagecreatetruecolor and not imagecreate, so if you replace the line

$img = imagecreate($width,$height);

with

$img = imagecreatetruecolor($width,$height);

it should work.

[Big Kahuna]

make sure the signature.jpg is CMOD to read and write by all, and you can just run the signature.php in your board's CRON once an hour -- and then just use the jpg instead of the php inside ing code.