Sam&Alice

[SarahH]

How'd you do that with your sig pics.... they change everytime I open it!!! Clever!!!!

 

[Urchin]

Pah! so do mine!

LOL c'mon then S&A lets have a look.

 

[SarahH]

I knew yours did but I thought that was because you had special "mod-powers"

 

[Urchin]

I knew yours did but I thought that was because you had special "mod-powers"

nah you just need them hosted somewhere that does rotators

 

[SarahH]

off I go searching *running*

 

[Manda&Thomas]

lol how slow am i i never even notised they did that
manda xx

 

[mum2A&L]

special "mod-powers"

lol, can you fly as well

nah, id noticed leckershell's and it kinda promted me to do mine. I right clicked on hers and used the site she uses (hope that was ok, im was wo lasy to google for one ).


if you wanted help to sort one out, let me know. i don't mind going through it in more detail with you.


Urchin - How do you get the counting thing on yours?

 

[Urchin]

I told leckershell about that site too

I have the ticker cos a friend did it, the prize draw winners also have won them too. If I could do one for you I would but I dunno how

 

[mum2A&L]

lol. I will have a google in a bit and see if i can suss it out. Or i will give my brother a tinkle and see if he can help.

 

[mum2A&L]

errrr............ what shall i try putting in google! lol

 

[Urchin]

Haha I dunno that either.

I just found out it uses 6000 lines of code.

Good luck

 

[mum2A&L]

Ive found something that does it... but now i can't upload it. grrrr

I won't let this beat me!!

 

[Urchin]

Ohh cool let me know if you manage it!!

 

[mum2A&L]

I think it shoudl work with flash (well everything i have read seems to suggest it), but its been years since i used it and i think im missing something really basic

going to get adam to have a look for me tomorro.w If i can get it working i will soon let you all know

 

[Misslarue]

If you need any extra help Sam, give me a PM. I've used Flash/Actionscript for years, I might be able to help.

........actually I've always wondered if you could use .swf/.html for your sigs, you could make some really cool ones

 

[tracyM]

I did them. I wanted to keep it quiet so I wouldn't get inundated with requests as I don't have time to do loads, but I'm happy to share the principal of them so you can get others to do them.

Each one is custom programmed to get the text in the right place, although the years, months, weeks and days is done from a central function. They're done in PHP, but the file needs a .png (or other image file) extension to work as a sig (png means they don't mess up other images on any websites on the server) (htaccess does it).

You need to write script to calculate the years, months, weeks and days. I've spent 3 years tweaking mine so it's not something I can give away unfortunately. I use timestamps. I store each of the years, months weeks and days in an array. You also need to beware of the GMT / BST time changes

You then use GD image library (another PHP thing) to get the background image and display the text - that's the easy bit

You can't display flash / html in sigs - PHPBB strips out anything but basic HTML. You can't even display an image with a php extension hence the need for htaccess to change the extension.

I'm sorry I can't do them for everyone I feel really guilty now

 

[x-kirsty-x]

I did them. I wanted to keep it quiet so I wouldn't get inundated with requests as I don't have time to do loads, but I'm happy to share the principal of them so you can get others to do them.

Each one is custom programmed to get the text in the right place, although the years, months, weeks and days is done from a central function. They're done in PHP, but the file needs a .png (or other image file) extension to work as a sig (png means they don't mess up other images on any websites on the server) (htaccess does it).

You need to write script to calculate the years, months, weeks and days. I've spent 3 years tweaking mine so it's not something I can give away unfortunately. I use timestamps. I store each of the years, months weeks and days in an array. You also need to beware of the GMT / BST time changes

You then use GD image library (another PHP thing) to get the background image and display the text - that's the easy bit

You can't display flash / html in sigs - PHPBB strips out anything but basic HTML. You can't even display an image with a php extension hence the need for htaccess to change the extension.

I'm sorry I can't do them for everyone I feel really guilty now

I knew it was you

I figured out how to make randomizer sigs a while ago but I wasnt sure how to get the ticker bit on. After reading your instructions I think I'll just give it a miss

 

[tracyM]

Another couple of things - you need to add some PHP headers to prevent image caching otherwise the image gets cached and the dates don't change. AOL doesn't even take notice of expired headers so you need the full caching headers. But that means you put heavy load on your server because the whole thing gets run everytime the sig shows. Another reason I don't want to do loads - my server would collapse in a heap with all you spammers

 

[mum2A&L]

mmm.. kinda makes sense to me thanks. when i get some spare time im going to sit down and try and get my head around it