Dynamic Sig

[DefecTalisman]

Check it out !

Part of something to be...kinda.

Everytime the image is viewed it increments the views and ovelays the text.



I know the base image is shoddy I will get around to making it look better.

Any ideas or comments?
Edit:
Damn, this could be a bad idea. 2mins and already at a count of 8 views.

2 days and the numbers will start rolling to the end of the image !

[neko.kun]

xD wow
strange @__@
but nice n___________n

[Slothie]

You'd prolly have to use either PHP's GD or ImageMagick libraries to do that. You can just take the basic image and overlay text over it. Not sure if it supports that spiffy font though :P

[PatrickDickey]

This could make for an interesting hit counter (although it will increment for your visits too). It wouldn't be a perfect tally, since you'll be able to 'pad the averages' a little.

Have a great weekend :-)
Patrick.

[DefecTalisman]

It is made using GD. The latest version of the script is running in my sig.
It counts the views, and yes that includes myself. Now it also identifies thr viewers platform, browser and version. It gets all the info from the enviroment. It also accepts multiple text strings and overlay images. This has been over a week in the making and will be ready for testing soon. Just got a few changes and tweaks.
Edit:

This could make for an interesting hit counter (although it will increment for your visits too). It wouldn't be a perfect tally, since you'll be able to 'pad the averages' a little.

Have a great weekend :-)
Patrick.

Regarding my views on it, I have a static IP and can differentiate my views to any others easily enough.

It is just a little more than a hit counter... soon it will have e-mail notification when it is viewed.

What I am aiming at, is to offer people these images as sigs or what ever they want. It is almost 100% customizable, from the images to the text to the fonts size/color...etc...

Just tying to get someone to aid in the creating of the forms to set the image settings. I have to much going on in my head regarding its development to do this efficently.

[Slothie]

o.O

emails? That would be like... a LOT of emails :D You should also consider recording unique hits only. Otherwise someone refreshing the page would give you a tonne of hits

[DefecTalisman]

Unique to that session maybe !
Else when they return to the image it wont log them as a hit.
Nice idea, added to the to do list.
This wouuld mean a 2nd log for IP's only and a session identifier, remember that it can't deal with cookies as they cant be placed in a image header (but a redirect can ;P, this would be nasty and no doubt illeagle as it would take people away from the forum they where viewing).

I am loosing my mind on all the code on this dev. If you know anything about php and would be intrested in looking at the code I might be willing to let you. If you have any comments or improovments in the way it operates then let me know.

This was all spured on by the lack of dynamic images avalible to the average Joe. What is out there is so bland and basic. This is like a glorified User Bar, that has much more and can be unique.

[Slothie]

Alternatively you could place the IP AND timestamp in the logs and update the counts if more than 24 hrs have elapsed since their last reload

Sessions wouldn't be too reliable in this case because you could always open the page in another window and it wouldn't be under the same session anymore.

[DefecTalisman]

In my sig, there are random colors on some of the text. Most obviouse is the shadow under "DefecTalisman".

There is a switch on the bottom left image(actually 2 images). These switches need to be switched by the user. Example would be Online/Offline.
The platform, browser and version is the viewers. At the moment I only have 8(centre_x, centre_y, bottom_y, top_y, left_x, right_x, center_both, center_bottom & x,y) and aligns for the overlays and text strings, but am adding more soon.
Edit:

Alternatively you could place the IP AND timestamp in the logs and update the counts if more than 24 hrs have elapsed since their last reload

Sessions wouldn't be too reliable in this case because you could always open the page in another window and it wouldn't be under the same session anymore.

True, but that would be considered in my book as a unique hit depending on why the viewer opened a new window.

[Slothie]

Or users like me who open up 1 link and open up new links that may be of interest in new windows :D