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Kangaroo2 BETA2
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Posted: 2nd Dec 2005 19:07 Edited at: 2nd Dec 2005 22:30
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I've noticed that a few people have signitures that display certain information about your own computer (browser, o/s etc) and also that some people have/used to have random quotes as signitures - how do you do this? I was wondering if I could write a code to display random signiture images, as I have lots and keep making more, its fun to swap them around, mbut might be more fun to have maybe 10 which display randomly, and then update them every couple of weeks or whatever...

Thanks


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Mnemonix
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Posted: 2nd Dec 2005 19:10
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Its dynamic image generation with php. If you want me to explain in more detail then MSN me or email me at mnemonix@logicstudios.net

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David R
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Posted: 2nd Dec 2005 19:10 Edited at: 2nd Dec 2005 19:11
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I believe that its a dynamic PHP image thingy that does those types of sigs. Not sure how though

[Mnem's post wasn't here when I pressed post. Sorry]


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blanky
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Posted: 2nd Dec 2005 20:06
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Every time you connect to a web page, whether it to be to download the content (or to ask for an external image), your browser immediately spams the server with most of the information you see on signature images about you.

The IP address is gotten simply because it's a TCP connection, and Winsock Knows These Kind Of Things.

From there, you simply tell your webserver to run a script (to generate an image) or some DLL or something and get it to return that.

Simple enough, but still a bit of a bitch on the ol' server resources, seeing as you have to dynamically generate the images every time...

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Benjamin
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Quote: "Simple enough, but still a bit of a bitch on the ol' server resources, seeing as you have to dynamically generate the images every time..."

Actually I think you just have to return an image address.

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David T
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Posted: 2nd Dec 2005 20:17
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No you return the whole image data.

Unless of course you just use a php header redirect to go to a random image - in which case the browser cache might kick in?

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Posted: 2nd Dec 2005 20:33
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Oh well then, it's not much different than just using a static image(bandwidth wise).

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any way to mask your ip?

hey, even I need someone to talk to about my troubles...
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Kangaroo2 BETA2
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Posted: 2nd Dec 2005 21:00 Edited at: 2nd Dec 2005 22:30
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Ahh cool thanks that makes sense

Anyone got an example for a random image out of a given directory or list file?

If not don't worry I can google


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Posted: 2nd Dec 2005 21:02 Edited at: 2nd Dec 2005 21:02
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say images are called image1.jpg to image10.jpg

randompic.php:


and then

[img ]whatever.com/randompic.php [ /img]

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Kangaroo2 BETA2
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Posted: 2nd Dec 2005 21:46 Edited at: 2nd Dec 2005 22:30
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wow as simple as that? Cool! thanks


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Yep thats how you do a random image selector.

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Posted: 2nd Dec 2005 22:08 Edited at: 2nd Dec 2005 22:09
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Quote: " any way to mask your ip?"

Nope. Unless you write the IP packets yourself, but in that case you wouldn't even be able to establish a connection as the remote peer wouldn't know where to send data. Why would you want to mask your IP, anyway?

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I don't think David T's way will work --- but I haven't tried. You might end up redirecting the page over to the image, rather than just the img box.

It's rather simple to do this kind of thing, though. I had to do a random image thingie for my last boss, and it would apply their copyright text to every uploaded image then save it to their server in GIF, JPG or PNG. It was pretty cool. My sig is the simplest example of dynamic text. It just grabs the name of my most recent blog entry :-P


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Quote: "I don't think David T's way will work --- but I haven't tried. You might end up redirecting the page over to the image, rather than just the img box."


I use it myself

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Posted: 2nd Dec 2005 22:24 Edited at: 2nd Dec 2005 22:36
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hmm testing

[edit] it appears to work fine, but I had to change the rand statement to "rand(1,10);"

thanks guys thats really cool


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Posted: 2nd Dec 2005 22:29 Edited at: 2nd Dec 2005 22:42
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Hmmm all worked fine and I refreshed a few times to watch it change, but now it seems to be stuck on just one image, the snoopy one... Iguess that is because the browser has stored it as a temporary file to stop it loading each time, thinking the php file actualy looks like the snopy image? I refreshed many times and stil kept getting snoopy so I'm sure its not just randomly selecting the same image....

[edit] ahh I just closed the browser completely and loaded it again, voila new image. Oh well thats not as serious a flaw as I initially thought then


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ctr-f5
that refreshes teh cache too

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Do you need any special editor for php, I think I'd like to try this?

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nope just write it in notepad and save it as a .php not .txt

You'll need webspace that supports it though obviously


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I'm less than a noob at PHP so, would anyone know how to do this if my sigs are on a different site(photobucket).

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in theory if you could get photobucket to have the last digit of the name to be in sequence it'd work fine, but don't they rename your images to whatever they want? If not then thats fine

Trouble is you'd still need somewhere to upload your .php file to and most free hosts don't support them.


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Yah it is hard to find a "free" host with php support. Though, madmanhosting.tk will eventually have support for php.
(1 gig of space and unlimited bandwidth though the servers down right now. )


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Quote: "Mnem's post wasn't here when I pressed post. Sorry"


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I should check if freewebs has php support, even as one of those buying features. I might even start paying my site bills again.

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FreeWebs has sod all.

No scripting support, just slow pure webspace.

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Here's a more detailed example



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I can post (or email) the code to mine if you like? I use PHP (with GD imaging enabled, you can tell that by looking up with php info command). Lemme know.

Btw: Everytime you load a thread, PHP picks a quote at random.

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