Forum sig

[bytethdgroove]

also sorry for the late reply, got tied up with work and my computer was in pieces as I was rebuilding...guess i should cut out the video port on my asus home server

[SparkyRih]

I guess my code is a little bit more advanced: http://marc.schattorie.nl/homepage/en/W ... -signature

I will make it user friendly (adding //comments to it), and will try to release it this evening...

[bytethdgroove]

<-----hardware guy, mild coding experience, alot of python.......yea, im not really a php coder...just have alot of experience hacking up other peoples code....my code is very simple, and for some reason .png didnt work only .php so I had it generate an image on the fly and I called that image as my signature (kinda a loophole) since I didnt know what i was doing.
glad to see this finally get done, and alot cleaner than mine, with instruction kudos to you man...
can't wait to try it out
peace
byte

[SparkyRih]

I created a new topic, have fun with it
http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6903

[dazbobaby]

Sadly my provider doesn't support curl. (something to do with security)
Any volunteers to host my sig for me please?
Or any free hosts that support the requirements for the sig?

[SparkyRih]

Sadly my provider doesn't support curl. (something to do with security)
Any volunteers to host my sig for me please?
Or any free hosts that support the requirements for the sig?

Built your own server at home like me no restrictions at all!

[dazbobaby]

Sadly my provider doesn't support curl. (something to do with security)
Any volunteers to host my sig for me please?
Or any free hosts that support the requirements for the sig?

Built your own server at home like me no restrictions at all!

Sounds like a plan, but how? WAMP?
and how do you see your own sig?

[dazbobaby]

got it working locally only, my subsonic address wont resolve properly, then of course there's putting it out on the internet successfuly.
Maybe getting the sig working on a local server and on forums is another topic entirely.

[dazbobaby]

testing remote access to the sig:
Yep it works!

[dazbobaby]

I hate to be a burden, but is it possible to set the code to select a random image?
I now have several images for my sig, and I'd like the code to randomise them....
Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.

But there' is a teeny tiny problem with the code, my time is wrong. It's out by one hour -1hour.

[dazbobaby]

Done it, here's the new code:

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//If the user is playing a music file...
playing:
$imageList = array("music1.png","music2.png","music3.png","music4.png");
$image = imagecreatefrompng($imageList[rand(1,count($imageList))-1]);
//$image = imagecreatefrompng("itunes_sig.png");
//Get the cover art

I've called the images music1.png - music4.png
I remarked the original line out for safe keeping.

[SparkyRih]

Nice job...

The fact that your time is wrong has to do with your server settings.
You can change it by +/- 3600 seconds.
$time = time()+3600;

[dazbobaby]

I couldn't find any details on how to setup UTC in Apache, but I did find a way of setting it up in PHP

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//Timestamp
//Different Timezones supported: http://phptutorial.info/?timezones
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');
$time = "My local time: ".date("l: M: H:i");

Thanks for the little push in the right direction though.

I've just been thinking about the idle signature, maybe it needs tarting up with IP address and Browser details

[dazbobaby]

IP Address Added, now to figure out Browser and OS.

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//If user is offline, or the last file has finished playing...
nothing:
$image = imagecreatefrompng("original.png");
$color = imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 255, 255);
$font = getcwd()."/Capture it.ttf";
$fontSize = 14;
//text location
$x = 5;
$y = 25;
$fontRotation = 0;
$str = "Your IP Address is $_SERVER[REMOTE_ADDR]";
//$str = "Your browser is $_SERVER[HTTP_USER_AGENT]";
imagettftext($image, $fontSize, $fontRotation, $x, $y, $color, $font, $str);
//Time location
imagettftext($image, 14, 0, 5, 195, imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 255, 255), getcwd()."/Capture it.ttf", $time);
header("Content-type: image/png"); 
header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate"); 
header("Expires: Fri, 19 Jan 1994 05:00:00 GMT"); 
header("Pragma: no-cache"); 
imagepng($image);
imagedestroy($image);
exit();

[SparkyRih]

I wanted to put my last tweet in this signature... but since my twitter account is protected it's a little bit harder