[DopeFish]

the only gdf fonts I could find were theese http://www.widgnet.com/gdf_fonts/fonts.html
but they are't all to great (and most of them too lage for signature images).
using imagettftext() might by an alternative.

[manorastroman]

dopefish, do you think you can make me a sig like that for my server?

[Tim]

@ DopeFish:
Thanks a LOT! Knew there had to be something like that,
couldn't find it though (Idiot me)

@Man or Astroman?:
Working on that right now, to be release along with my scriptpack.
Preview (needs some brushing up, technically ok...):
http://www.un4given.nl
Should display playing details, if not it's the same working steam gif
as in my signature...

The bug you mentioned is because there should be 20+ pictures interleaving
using CSS style sheets, which apperently Mozilla FireFox doesn't handle well...
Grey () for offline, Green () for online.


Best regards,
Tim

[Tim]

Ok anyone got any pointers for me how I actually call my PHP script
that generates a picture from a .jpg / .gif / .png file??
Having quite the deadlock here...

[Freecode]

u need to change MIME type on ur hosting server.

[Tim]

Edit: AGA Thanks a lot, Going to give that a try now...
Edit2: I came, I tried, I failed miserably...
Doesn't seem to be working for me or my webserver...
Cpoied the .htaccess from the PHP manual, but that gets
me an internal server error...

Action php-script /cgi-bin/php
AddHandler php-script .gif

Changed a simple PHP script into an gif, hoping it
would execute, but it just wouldn't work.

Is there any way I can have an empty .gif / .png / .jpg
link towards one of mij PHP scripts?
Or does anyone know what I'm doing wrong??
As a last resort, how have others managed to fix this?
Might be inspiring seeing a working version somewhere...


Tim

[AGA]

You define MIME-types in .htaccess. See this for reference.

[DopeFish]

there is a tutorial for creating .gif/.jpg/.png images with php (with apache .htaccess configuration)
http://www.phpmix.com/index.php?page=213&t=328
But remember your webhoster can also restrict which directives can be used in a .htaccess, so if everything fails, it might not be your fault.

For my sig images I went a different approach since I pass part of the filename requested as a variable to the script

   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteRule  ^/serverstats/server_([0-9]{1,5})_.jpg$ http://si-ka.net/serverstats/serversig.php?id=$1 [P]

the image requested is called server_xy_.jpg, where xy is the numerical id of the server you want stats of.


@Man... or Astroman?
You can either
- follow the tutorial above and make your own (after you have written one or two php image scripts you get the hang of it and it becomes really easy)
- or wait for Tim to finish his scriptpack (which will be more flexible for you since you can then adjust it to your needs without having to write it from scratch)
- or if you are lazy you can just add your server to my serverstats monitor and use the sig images it creates.

[Tim]

Thanks a lot, tutorail really got me through it,
now just to adjust my script to work with it...
So far:

[manorastroman]

ill take the lazy option, thanks man, works excellent