Synchronized rotating avatar and signature script?

[DreamCaster]

Just curious if anyone has come across anything like this that will allow me to rotate matching signatures/avatars (like 9 or 10 sets)...

~Peace
DC

[berks]

didn't rasta have something like that?

[greffov]

it's called PHP and if you want it you'll have it.

(an example is our nice firefox banner, which shows 7 different ones, fully loaded with GreffTechnology(tm) )

[DreamCaster]

YAY!

[greffov]

I assume you want something in HTML like:

<img src="http://myhost.com/~me/mybanner.php" alt="my random banner!" />

then mybanner.php will output an image (JPEG, GIF, PNG, whatever format you like).

So, various routes are possible here, but one might be the simplest for both you, the webserver and me.

So here is the script I propose, with comments:

PHP Code:

<?php
    // first of all: the banners we want to have displayed at random
    $banners = array();
    array_push($banners, 'path/to/my/image.jpeg');
    array_push($banners, 'path/to/my/other/image.gif');
    // you can add as many as you like here

    // let's pick one at random
    $banner = $banners[rand(0, count($banners) - 1)];

    // tell the browser were going to send it an image, instead of text
    // since we support many different image formats, we have to be
    // specific here
    if (preg_match ("/.jpeg$/i", $banner)) {
        header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
    } else if (preg_match ("/.jpg$/i", $banner)) {
        header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
    } else if (preg_match ("/.gif$/i", $banner)) {
        header("Content-type: image/gif");
    } else if (preg_match ("/.png$/i", $banner)) {
        header("Content-type: image/png");
    } else {
        die("$banner is not recognised as a valid image format!");
    }
    // you might want to add image formats if you have ones that are not
    // JPEG, GIF or PNG and want to send them to the browser.

    // now, lets do the actual work by sending the browser the image
    readfile($banner);
?>

Make sure there is absolutely NO spaces before and after the <?php and ?>!!!

ohw and ask Pasty901 about the variable declaration, I don't recall how to do that correctly if the webserver is configured to be strict...

[Calyxa]

I've got two avatars that DC made for me and one i made myself I'd love to get a rotating avatar (and sig) did this work for you when you used it?

[greffov]

well, I don't think I've tested this, but I'm sure it will work (perhaps with some little fixes)