IceTeks Articles -> Creating a dynamic signature

thanx, well I lightend the background a bit more, this is pretty much how I want it
sig's here don't allow hyperlinking an image that sucks but this is possible on almost every other site I'm on so there the image links to my site, pretty cool stuff

that's pretty cewl, but I'm trying to make a dynamic sig with RSS feed.

I've tried altering the code I have to use imagestring instead of imagettftext, this made it to produce an image at least, but with only four zero's. Changing the feed does not help. I wonder if I can achieve this at all using imagestring. Any idea's?

http://www.a-base.dds.nl/sig_rss/rss_image_d.php
http://www.a-base.dds.nl/sig_rss/rss_image_d.txt <-code

Still haven't heard from my host....

Imagestring works for me too

I have uploaded arial.ttf to the same folder, even put that putenv GDFONTPATH in there but alas still nogo, I'm waiting what my host has to say about this....

If you're on a windows xp machine just go to C:\WINDOWS\Fonts select your font (I just stuck with arial) and copy that into the directory of your web server. I couldn't copy the file from inside windows explorer but my ftp client had no trouble.

Instead of using imagettftext I just used imagestring. It must be imagettftext that is causing the problem. Presumably you need to get the tff file from somewhere and enclose it in the folder.

hmm. I think the problem is with my host because I tested the standard example code the PHP manual gives for the imagettftext function and that gives me the same error!
http://www.a-base.dds.nl/sig_rss/test.php
http://www.a-base.dds.nl/sig_rss/test.txt <-code

I emailed my host about this, I'll keep you all informed

Yea I noticed, but I tried it with different RSS feeds (2.0) and that doesn't make a difference

thanx for noticing though

this is pretty weird though, I changed the feed to another again now and when I refresh my sig quicky sometimes it does show the image but never with any text. Could this be because this feed might be slower or something?

http://www.a-base.dds.nl/sig_rss/rss_image_b.php
http://www.a-base.dds.nl/sig_rss/rss_image_b.txt <-code

I have a trial copy of Zend Development Environment 3.5.0. You know those trials you get from certain places on the internet.

It's 30 Mb if you want me to send it to you.

ZenithalRavage, are you aware you're using a different version of rss? I don't know if that would make any difference though.

Check post #9 on that page I gave to see the original code. As you can see I barely changed it except for the image and rss link. The only important thing I changed to prevent php from giving error's was change this:

function charData($parser, $data) {
global $store, $array;


into this:


function charData($parser, $data) {
global $store, $array, $count, $maxent;

I'm trying to make a dynamic signature aswell but I think I'm running into the same problem with my server not parsing the php file correctly as an image. I can't use a htaccess file to solve this because my provider does not support this. Is there any other way to get this to work or can I screw it?

Thats the code I use. stick that in a .php file (open notepad, copy/paste that, save it as a .php) and upload that into a folder named "sigfolder.jpg". Now change the bolded text to your sever info. Stick any images you want in the rotation inside of the sig folder along with the php file named "index.php"


in your sig, put "<yourserver>.com/sigfolder.jpg" (NO "/" after the .jpg)