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.

[NYI Fan]

Originally Posted by Stangsta

Hell, I've been patient, and I have not recieved any help. I cant get it to work, not even a red x. Help just seems to be selective. It is an excellent hack, just wish I was able to use it

PLEASE don't take this the wrong way, but this is really a very very busy time of year for almost everyone - regardless of whether you celebrate any of the holidays this time of year, lots of things come up. Not making excuses for anyone, just offering what I think is a very valid reason support may have been scarse lately...

When you open signature.php, you get a completely blank page? No errors? and when you use it in a sig, nothing at all shows up? I am FAR from a pro, but maybe with the time I spent digging thru this thread and messing with my own, I can help? Sometimes all it takes is a fresh set of eyes...

[Stangsta]

Originally Posted by NYI Fan

PLEASE don't take this the wrong way, but this is really a very very busy time of year for almost everyone - regardless of whether you celebrate any of the holidays this time of year, lots of things come up. Not making excuses for anyone, just offering what I think is a very valid reason support may have been scarse lately...

When you open signature.php, you get a completely blank page? No errors? and when you use it in a sig, nothing at all shows up? I am FAR from a pro, but maybe with the time I spent digging thru this thread and messing with my own, I can help? Sometimes all it takes is a fresh set of eyes...

Thanks for the response. I understand about people having a life outside of VB and, ill be patient, not a problem, just hope someday I can get this to work.

I get a completely blank page, it doesn't diaplay any errors on the page. If there is another way to check for errors, i am unfamiliar. I posted some info in a couple of my previous posts in this thread hoping it would shed some light.

I don't know if this helps, but my sig.jpg and signature.jpg files are identical, just 2 different names. Should the sig.jpg be the input image and signature.jpg be an ampty file?

Thanks for any and all assistance, it is greatly appreciated.

[boo.3]

i don't really understand how this works? what should i do? how do i make the image to go with text?

i do Photoshop and know it very well but have no idea how this works

[Takamine334]

Originally Posted by Stangsta

Hell, I've been patient, and I have not recieved any help. I cant get it to work, not even a red x. Help just seems to be selective. It is an excellent hack, just wish I was able to use it

It's not worth wasted ATP. You'll never get help.

[NYI Fan]

Originally Posted by Stangsta

I get a completely blank page, it doesn't diaplay any errors on the page. If there is another way to check for errors, i am unfamiliar. I posted some info in a couple of my previous posts in this thread hoping it would shed some light.

I don't know if this helps, but my sig.jpg and signature.jpg files are identical, just 2 different names. Should the sig.jpg be the input image and signature.jpg be an ampty file?

Thanks for any and all assistance, it is greatly appreciated.

Yup, the 2 images should be identical - that threw me at 1st too If you bring up signature.php in your browser its showing a blank page? or are you getting the blank when you use the bbcode?

I'm sure you have already checked this, but is the path to both images accurate (although Im pretty sure that would throw an error, or red x if it wasnt correct)

I'm sure someone more knowledgeable will pop in with the answer, these are just really basic preliminary things - it took me a bit to get mine going, but i kept re-reading this thread and eventually the lightbulb went off and I realized my issue (paths! Doh!! lol)

Hang in there, you'll get it going!

[NYI Fan]

Originally Posted by boo.3

i don't really understand how this works? what should i do? how do i make the image to go with text?

i do Photoshop and know it very well but have no idea how this works

What I did was make a sig tag, with an area that the text would fit into - saved it as sig.jpg and signature.jpg - then I edited the signature.php file as directed, and uploaded everything per the instructions. Once you see how it falls, then you go back into signature.php and tweak the margins so the text goes where you want it.

After I figured it out, I was also able to append an existing sig for someone else on the boards so they too have the stats but on their own sig (just did as previously suggested and created a signature1.jpg, sig1.jpg and signature1.php, but followed the same process)

[boo.3]

ahh ok cool i'll give it a try thanks for sharing

[boo.3]

lol i didn't install my vB how do i know what my vB database name is?

//DB-Servername
$host = "localhost";

//DB-Username
$user= "xxxxxx";

//vbulletin database name
$database="xxxxxx";

would the server name be b3playground.com

?

thanks boo

[NYI Fan]

Originally Posted by boo.3

lol i didn't install my vB how do i know what my vB database name is?

//DB-Servername
$host = "localhost";

//DB-Username
$user= "xxxxxx";

//vbulletin database name
$database="xxxxxx";

would the server name be b3playground.com

?

thanks boo

Do you have access to your server? if so, ftp in and grab a copy of /forum/includes/config.php. Open that and you'll find the values you need right in there :classic: HTH!

[HelplessBot]

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imagettftext() in /home/scott/public_html/signature.php on line 259

i get that error

[NYI Fan]

if you search this thread for imagettftext you will see some folks have that issue - depends on your hosts support for it. If you turn off TTF support (use default font instead) does it work then?

[DWard]

Originally Posted by HelplessBot

i get that error

Yer this usually means either your host has disabled the use of this function or the framework for the function is not installed on the server.

[boo.3]

Originally Posted by NYI Fan

Do you have access to your server? if so, ftp in and grab a copy of /forum/includes/config.php. Open that and you'll find the values you need right in there :classic: HTH!

thanks

whats the full path to the signare?? :ermm:

[NYI Fan]

Originally Posted by boo.3

thanks

whats the full path to the signare?? :ermm:

That depends on where you put them!
should be similar to /home/yourserver/public_html/forums/sigscriptfolder/sig.jpg

[Stangsta]

Originally Posted by NYI Fan

Yup, the 2 images should be identical - that threw me at 1st too If you bring up signature.php in your browser its showing a blank page? or are you getting the blank when you use the bbcode?

I'm sure you have already checked this, but is the path to both images accurate (although Im pretty sure that would throw an error, or red x if it wasnt correct)

I'm sure someone more knowledgeable will pop in with the answer, these are just really basic preliminary things - it took me a bit to get mine going, but i kept re-reading this thread and eventually the lightbulb went off and I realized my issue (paths! Doh!! lol)

Hang in there, you'll get it going!

Ok, When i pull it up in the browser, I get a blank page. When I use bbcode, I get a red x. Im pretty sure the paths are correct, here is what they are:


//full path to empty signature image (input image)
$vorlagedatei = "/home/sevencityracing/html/hosting/sig.jpg";

//full path to signare image with forum data (output image)
$ausgabedatei = "/home/sevencityracing/html/hosting/signature.jpg";

Im thinking its a "path" issue, but it looks correct to me. What can I be missing?

Again, thanks for taking the time to try and help me.