php based avatars...

[Francesc Lynx]

PHP based avatars? PHP based signatures? What's that? I want to know

[TC]

both refer to generating dynamic images of some sort - whether it be random, based on user input (see my sig), or otherwise.

[eXplosive]

Actually, I think it would make more sense to use readfile(); instead of passthru();

I think he meant fpassthru().

[Bertg]

isn't that dangerous pasting your IP like that?

-bert-

[FF8Jake]

isn't that dangerous pasting your IP like that?

-bert-

Its not hard to get someone's IP at all really, watch my dynamic sig and sometimes it will throw your's in your face.

But, i'll edit it out just to be safe.

EDIT: Gah, can't edit that far back.

[Francesc Lynx]

both refer to generating dynamic images of some sort - whether it be random, based on user input (see my sig), or otherwise.

Aaaaha... well, I want to learn how to do that sort of things... can anyone help me? Or is it very very very difficult?

[Bertg]

both refer to generating dynamic images of some sort - whether it be random, based on user input (see my sig), or otherwise.

Aaaaha... well, I want to learn how to do that sort of things... can anyone help me? Or is it very very very difficult?

You need 3 things:)
(thisis how I alway learn things)

1: Apropriate hardware (a PHP server with GD-lib running (and maby a MySQL database if you want to do even more nifty thigns)

2: A working (advanced) code.
You can edit and delete etc.. in that code -> see the result and your learing...

3: www.php.com there ALL php tags are explained...
it is your manual

-bert-

[FF8Jake]

1: Apropriate hardware (a PHP server with GD-lib running (and maby a MySQL database if you want to do even more nifty thigns)

Actually the GD image creation library isn't always needed. My signiture uses it because it layers text over the top of a bg-image. My avatar doesn't need it because it just outputs the data of a random image in it's directory, which comes standard with php.

There are two huge topics about it here and here.

[konigwolf]

wait do you mean like your sig.