[foobars]

Your signature is sweet. It's the first really great one I've seen. Is it creating that image on the fly or is it just random?

[ 06-19-2001: Message edited by: foobars ]

[mr_sonicblue]

Thanks

It is being generated on-the-fly with GD and PHP.

[seanyepez]

Cool!

Do a "Reload Image" and you will see that it's not always the same.

[Xeo]

There is something called e-mail...

Anywho, it is a pretty cool sig.

[lucylawless]

Originally posted by Xeo:
<STRONG>There is something called e-mail...

Anywho, it is a pretty cool sig.</STRONG>

I never noticed that it (his sig) changes before reading this

[ARENA]

As i once told you, sonicblue, I really like your style...this has to be one of the coolest sigs i�ve seen. minimalistic design rocks!


btw, how do you generate the random image on the fly with PHP?
I dont know anything of PHP...is it hard?

[mr_sonicblue]

Originally posted by ARENA:
<STRONG>btw, how do you generate the random image on the fly with PHP?
I dont know anything of PHP...is it hard?</STRONG>

PHP has functions for interacting with GD, which interacts with various graphics libraries (libpng, etc). You'd basically have to know C-style and how to call functions to do such in PHP. Here's the actual script that generates my sig:

<font face = "courier">#!/usr/bin/php4 -q
&lt;?
srand((double) microtime() * 1000000);

header("Content-type: image/png\n");
header("Cache-Control: no-cache \n");
header("Expires: Mon, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT\n\n");

$im = ImageCreateFromPNG('base.png');
$ovr = ImageCreateFromPNG('pineapple.png');

ImageColorSet($im, 1, 0, 0, 0);

ImageCopy($im, $ovr, 0, 0, 0, rand(0,59), 120, 35);
ImageRectangle($im, 0, 0, 119, 34, 1);

ImagePNG($im);
?&gt;</font>

If you can read that, you're set

[plaidpjs]

Originally posted by mr_sonicblue:
<STRONG>

PHP has functions for interacting with GD, which interacts with various graphics libraries (libpng, etc). You'd basically have to know C-style and how to call functions to do such in PHP. Here's the actual script that generates my sig:

&lt;font face = "courier"&gt;#!/usr/bin/php4 -q
&lt;?
srand((double) microtime() * 1000000);

header("Content-type: image/png\n");
header("Cache-Control: no-cache \n");
header("Expires: Mon, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT\n\n");

$im = ImageCreateFromPNG('base.png');
$ovr = ImageCreateFromPNG('pineapple.png');

ImageColorSet($im, 1, 0, 0, 0);

ImageCopy($im, $ovr, 0, 0, 0, rand(0,59), 120, 35);
ImageRectangle($im, 0, 0, 119, 34, 1);

ImagePNG($im);
?&gt;&lt;/font&gt;

If you can read that, you're set </STRONG>

Uhm, okay, I get the PHP parts, but I'm not sure I understand what the calls are doing. Is that actually referencing GD (I have never used GD). Also, are you serving that sig off your own server?