SPeedY_B

A few people have asked me about this one since I first used it a while back, and now that I've had my play, I'm going to share it with everyone else

Requirements :

• A mild knowledge of php helps, but isn't essential
• More than one signature image in gif or jpeg format
• Webhost supporting the php hypertext processor language
• Pie

There are two (2) ways to get this done, either upload everything as we go along, or create the folder locally then upload it all at once, either way, the concept is still the same.


Step 1
Create a new folder, for the purpose of demonstration we'll call it sig
So once uploaded, this will be accessable via http://yoursite.com/sig/


Step 2
next create an empty text file, and copy the following code into it.

-------------start code------------------
<?php
srand( time() );
$files = array();
if ($dir = @opendir(".")) {
while (($file = readdir($dir)) !== false) {
if ( eregi( '.(jpg|gif)$', $file ) ) {
$files[] = $file;
}
}
closedir($dir);
}
$file = $files[rand() % sizeof( $files )];
if ( eregi( '.jpg$', $file ) ) {
header( "Content-Type: image/jpeg" );
} else {
header( "Content-Type: image/gif" );
}
header( "Content-Length: " . filesize( $file ) );
readfile( $file );
?>
--------------end code------------------

Re-name that file to index.php and put it in the folder we created, so that it can eventually be accessed via http://yoursite.com/sig/index.php


Step 3
Next upload a few images with either .gif or .jpg extensions into the /sig/ folder

so for example the folder contents now look something like this:

• index.php
• sig01.jpg
• picture.gif
• something.gif
• pie.jpg

Step 4
Now on the forums, open up your User CP and use the [img] tags as you usually would, but instead link to the .php file like so
[img]http://yoursite.com/sig/index.php[/img]


If everything has gone according to plan, then your signature should change nearly every time the page is refreshed/viewed.



Note : Because I don't trust the forums parsers, the source code has been attached in a text file, if you want to you can simply save this file ane remove the .txt extension to save copy pasting into a new file




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NetRyder

Excellent! Thanks SpeedY

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SPeedY_B

No problem, I did say that I'd give everyone the source once I'd had my play, so I have

If people decide to use this tho, bear in mind that the images will not be cached, so try and use a reletively small sized image so that the dial-up users don't have to download a large file everytime they view a thread with your sig on.

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Geffy

This is SPeedY_Bs sig code with sig blocker, if other people want to be able to do this

all the IPs which dont want the sig are stored in the `sig` table in a MySQL database

I used that because I couldnt get
to work, dunno why

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NetRyder

Someone sticky this thread

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SPeedY_B

Done.

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X-Istence

Really nice tutorial.

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xsivforce

I beleive it was originaly @ x-istence.com

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SPeedY_B

It was?

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Electronic Punk

Yeah definatly use the attachment..

Pardon?

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Electronic Punk

Hmm, still doing the same... what the jimmy j have I done ?

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SPeedY_B

You've broke it all

It's working fine here

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SPeedY_B

Try, this one, saved in UTF-8, should work without any problems

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X-Istence

Not that i know off. Speedy_B only asked if there was some way he could improve it. Which there isnt.

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wadada

kewl lol im so newbie with this php code

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Glaanieboy

You shall learn, my son. It's quite fun to do.

gonaads

Now I gotta make up some Sigs and try it out

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SPeedY_B

Just get a huge collection of all your sigs over from the past

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gonaads

That is alot

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Grandmaster

cool tutorial

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