PHP Random sig image

[conundrum]

there was someone on the forum who had a random image script where it would randomly pick one of his images for his sig and show it. i think it was a CGI script but i could be wrong. any help with creating one or finding one would be gladly apreciated

-Conundrum

[Keldyn]

I thought it was a PHP file ?:ermm:

[conundrum]

well whatever it is i thought it was cgi but i could be wrong

[Keldyn]

i know prasanth16 is using a php sig at the moment. perhaps you could PM him asking how ? This topic has been covered alot in the past however, doing a search here may yield some info for you ;)

[Prasanth]

i think keldyn is right

and here u go;)

<?

$URL1="sigs/sig1.jpg";

$URL2="sigs/sig2.jpg";

$URL3="sigs/sig3.jpg";

srand((double) microtime() * 1000000);

$random = rand(1,3);

if($random == 1)

@header ("Location: $URL1");

elseif ($random == 2)

@header ("Location: $URL2");

elseif ($random == 3)

@header ("Location: $URL3");

?>

[Dazzla Veteran]

The majority of people use php files, thats what I used. I warn you though, if you intend on using this, make sure you have a lot of bandwidth because these eat it up for breakfast.

Just for reference, here's the coding I had in my "sig.php":

<?

$URL1="sig/Real.jpg";

$URL2="sig/Lust.jpg";

$URL3="sig/Fate.jpg";

$URL4="sig/Love.jpg";

$URL5="sig/Hate.jpg";

$URL6="sig/Pure.jpg";

$URL7="sig/Hope.jpg";

$URL8="sig/True.jpg";

$URL9="sig/Luck.jpg";



srand((double) microtime() * 1000000);

$random = rand(1,9);



if($random == 1)

    @header ("Location: $URL1");

elseif ($random == 2)

    @header ("Location: $URL2");

elseif ($random == 3)

    @header ("Location: $URL3");

elseif ($random == 4)

    @header ("Location: $URL4");

elseif ($random == 5)

    @header ("Location: $URL5");

elseif ($random == 6)

    @header ("Location: $URL6");

elseif ($random == 7)

    @header ("Location: $URL7");

elseif ($random == 8)

    @header ("Location: $URL8");

elseif ($random == 9)

    @header ("Location: $URL9");

?>[/PHP]

This was for 9 random sigs, the sigs are called "real.jpg", "Lust.jpg" etc. They are placed in a folder called "Sig".

I'm real crap at explaining this so you'd probably be better off searching in the forums, because I know there was a good thread dedicated to this.

Edit: Damn, you beat me to it... :evil:

[conundrum]

thank you soo much

[Keldyn]

I decided to make this sticky for a while, seeing as how this question gets asked alot. Cheers prasanth and Dazzla.

[Prasanth]

Dazzla im a lil fast:P

[Dazzla Veteran]

  Quote

Originally posted by prasanth16

Dazzla im a lil fast:P

yeah I suppose, but mine's in nice pretty PHP tags and That extra minute was spent trying to explain it (poorly I admit :D ), so :lick:

Disclaimer: for people who lack a sense of humour, this is called sarcasm

[Joseph Zollo]

Here's a random image script in perl, it chooses a random file from a directory you specify.

<pre>

#!/usr/bin/perl

$IMAGE_DIRECTORY = "INSERT ABSOLUTE PATH TO DIRECTORY";

my $line = "";

my $file1= "";

my $x=0;

opendir (DIR,"$IMAGE_DIRECTORY");

while ($fileName = readdir(DIR)) {

        next if (-d $IMAGE_DIRECTORY . $fileName);

	next if ($fileName !~ /w/);

	$ls[$x] = $fileName;

	$x+=1;

}

closedir(DIR);

srand();

$file1 = int(rand(@ls));

print ("Pragma: no-cachen");

if ($ls[$file1] =~ /.gif$/i) {

	print ("Content-type: image/gifnn");

} elsif ($ls[$file1] =~ /.jpg$|.jpeg$/i) {

	print ("Content-type: image/jpgnn");

} else {

	exit(0);

}

open (INPUT, $IMAGE_DIRECTORY . $ls[$file1]);

while ($line = <INPUT>) {

	print ($line);

}

close(INPUT);

exit(0);

</pre>

You would call it as if it were a normal image...""

[john smith 1924 Veteran]

HOW TO DO IT!

<?

$URL1="addressofsig1";

$URL2="addressofsig2";

$URL3="addressofsig3";

$URL4="addressofsig4";

$URL5="addressofsig5";

$URL6="addressofsig6";

$URL7="addressofsig7";

$URL8="addressofsig8";

$URL9="addressofsig9";



srand((double) microtime() * 1000000);

$random = rand(1,9);



if($random == 1)

    @header ("Location: $URL1");

elseif ($random == 2)

    @header ("Location: $URL2");

elseif ($random == 3)

    @header ("Location: $URL3");

elseif ($random == 4)

    @header ("Location: $URL4");

elseif ($random == 5)

    @header ("Location: $URL5");

elseif ($random == 6)

    @header ("Location: $URL6");

elseif ($random == 7)

    @header ("Location: $URL7");

elseif ($random == 8)

    @header ("Location: $URL8");

elseif ($random == 9)

    @header ("Location: $URL9");

?>

open notepad. copy paste that info above into it. where it says addressofsig1 - thats the address of your first signature file - e.g. http://www.geocities.com/neowinuser/sig1.jpg . that would be what you put in there. The second one would be were ever it is, and os and so on. if 9 is too many then remove one - dont forget to remove one of the

elseif ($random == 9)

@header ("Location: $URL9");

at the bottom.

any quezzies?!

[Prasanth]

mr mangoo i think when removing a sig from the spin we need to change this too

$random = rand(1,8);

mr magoo= granted - yes.

[Prasanth]

a lot of ppl are asking for a good php host for their sigs

http://www.tripod.co.uk

i think this one is the best;)

note tripod.com dont have support for php

[digital.death]

If you're going to do it in php there is an easier way:

<?php 



/* Declare variables. */

$path = "./";

$arr  = array ();



/* Open Directory */

if ($dir = @opendir($path)) {

 while ($file = readdir($dir)) 

 {

  if ((is_file($file)) && (eregi("(.gif|.jpg|.png)",$file))) {

  /* Verify that the file is an image. */

   $arr[] = $file;

  }

 }  

 closedir($dir);

}



/* print a random sig. */

header ('Location: ' . $arr[rand (0, count ($arr)-1)]);



?>[/PHP]

Just change the $path variable to whatever folder you want.

[Deepu Sudhakar]

Another easy way

<pre><?php



header("Location: [url]http://www.bla.net/blaavatars/sig[/url]".rand(1,40).".gif");





?></pre>

Obviously the location has to lead to your pictures, and ure pictures have to begin with "sig" followed by a number. For example i would have sig1, sig2, and sig3. You can change the random range to whatever number of pics you have, and you can change .gif to .jpg or .png...maybe it is a little bit complicated, but at least the code is shorter :p

[Prash]

Perl sucks LOL!

[IanD]

OK, i did everthing...to make the sig..

but do i put a link to the PHP script in my sig? or what do i do?

-sMk

[Tim Dorr Veteran]

do as I do:

[ img ] http://www.yoursite.com/sig.php [ /img ]

but get rid of the spaces...

[Weasel]

The script shown throughout this thread was written by yours truly, please credit the code.

Thanks. :)

[Vinh]

talking about sigs, time to make some :)

[sssqqq]

Is there any way to make the script print random text instead? I have a list of about 15 quotes and want them to display randomly instead of proper images. However I'm not sure if a web browser would display it correctly if it was called using an tag?

[Rusty.Metal]

i think u used coolmon to generat a .xhtml and made the php file read it for ur old... sig a made it a layer on top or something wanna explain it for use reaterded people?

[ctrlaltdel]

Is it possible to rotate sigs automatically?

If so, how?

[SYBOLD]

It's done by a php script

https://www.neowin.net/bboard/showthread.ph...&threadid=22689

[DerkPY]

Yes, you can make a gif movie which changes the image every couple of seconds.