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Jamatu
Jamatu's Dynamic image store

I've been playing around with gd* recently and I am now confident enough to open up a shop to sell my services. Scorpio needs some friendly competition anyways Wink
Quote:
GD is an open source code library for the dynamic creation of images by programmers. GD is written in C, and "wrappers" are available for Perl, PHP and other languages. GD creates PNG, JPEG and GIF images, among other formats. GD is commonly used to generate charts, graphics, thumbnails, and most anything else, on the fly. While not restricted to use on the web, the most common applications of GD involve web site development.


Server status images
This signature will output certain details of the server you are using the script on. You can output almost any data that you can get from the terminal, virtual files and php functions etc. The drawback with this type of signature though is that you have to have certain permissions on the server to do so.

Here is an example image, the data for it is supplied by my home server:


Dynamic text
The script will consist of a transparent background and the dynamic text of your choosing. An application for this script could be for example a signature with random jokes. See 'Dynamic Text sources' below for more information on ways you can get the dynamic text for your image.

Example image


Dynamic images
This script will consist of an image pool of your choosing, every time the page or image is refreshed a random image will be selected. An application for this script could be for example a signature that has 3 images that are chosen at random.

Example image


Static image & Dynamic text
This script will be the same as the Dynamic text script except it will have an image of your choosing rather than a transparent background. An application for this script could be for example your website logo with random customer quotes on top of it. See 'Dynamic Text sources' below for more information on ways you can get the dynamic text for your image.

Example image


Dynamic images & Static text
This script will be the same as the Dynamic image script except it will have some static text over the top of each image. An application for this script could be for example a small caption at the bottom of your images with copyright text (if you can't or don't want to edit the images directly).

Example image


Dynamic images & Dynamic text
This script will consist of 2 arrays 1 of images and one of text. One image and One text string will be chosen, the text will then be written over the image. See 'Dynamic Text sources' below for more information on ways you can get the dynamic text for your image.

Example image


Dynamic Text sources
Dynamic text can be acquired from many sources this is including but not limited to
  • Random quotes of your choosing from an array
  • Totally random text aka incoherent babble
  • SQL query output
  • php function output
  • And more...

Interested? - Read on
  • If interested post here or PM me with details on the type of signature you wish me to code.
  • I will look through your specifications and give you an estimate on the cost and amount of time it will take to code
  • Once the code is complete I will notify you and request payment.
  • Once I receive payment I will send the code to you either by PM or through Pastbin
  • Installation Instructions will be provided, installation support costs are covered by the initial script fee

I appologize for the... naff example images I will hopefully be able to replace the with examples of my work once I start getting requests.
bladesage
Interesting...but I'm a scorpio fan.

If you think you could convince me of what makes your services better, I'd like to hear it. I do think they're interesting, but I could get almost any of those effects through either scorpio or n0obie4life. Such as the countdown in my sig. That was made by n0obie4life, and I'm already awaiting my third order from scorpio.

Hehe, I'm pretty stubborn =D. Good luck trying to change my mind.
Scorpio
I really dont mind..

I have a lot o frih bucks anyway.

Good luck with your store, Jamatu.. Very Happy
Jamatu
bladesage wrote:
Interesting...but I'm a scorpio fan.

If you think you could convince me of what makes your services better, I'd like to hear it. I do think they're interesting, but I could get almost any of those effects through either scorpio or n0obie4life. Such as the countdown in my sig. That was made by n0obie4life, and I'm already awaiting my third order from scorpio.

Hehe, I'm pretty stubborn =D. Good luck trying to change my mind.

Well since there's quite a few people offering the service you could search around for quotations. You can keep a record of the quotations offered to you and choose the best deal.
bladesage
I'll tell you what, next time I need a dynamic sig, I'll gladly let you know.
bladesage
Here's a question:

Could it produce text on a cycle, from an external .txt file, and have it slide into view? If so, I probably have an excellent order coming to you soon!

I want to have it make a .gif image, that will cycle through an external text file's list of news items, and use animation to do the cycling/sliding.

If this is impossible, please let me know. But this would make an awesome little news image!

Since it's for news, that's why I want it to read text from an external file, that I can edit announcements in and out of as needed. It would also be cool if I could add little slices of symbols/numbers inside the external file, that could make parts of text bold, italic, and/or different colors.

I'd like all this to be done via a .txt file to make things simpler for my band and I to edit, otherwise, what are the options for that?

Please note: This is an inquiry. It's not an order yet, so don't think I already said what I want. I may want a background image or something later, like maybe something neat inside that little text file to add returns or adjust the delay time or something.
Jamatu
bladesage wrote:

Could it produce text on a cycle, from an external .txt file, and have it slide into view? If so, I probably have an excellent order coming to you soon!

I want to have it make a .gif image, that will cycle through an external text file's list of news items, and use animation to do the cycling/sliding.

If this is impossible, please let me know. But this would make an awesome little news image!

Yup that can be done, I've just spent the last 5 hours making an example script for you to see if it's what you want. Don't worry I know it's only an inquiry but I used it as a chance to further my skills Smile

Example:

Remember this is only an example image I used my own slide direction, colours, text size, numer of loops etc etc
Click here to view the image by itself
bladesage wrote:

Since it's for news, that's why I want it to read text from an external file, that I can edit announcements in and out of as needed. It would also be cool if I could add little slices of symbols/numbers inside the external file, that could make parts of text bold, italic, and/or different colors.

I might be able to do that but I can't promise anything. I've never done 'BB code' before so it will increase the time it will take me to make the script.

bladesage wrote:

I'd like all this to be done via a .txt file to make things simpler for my band and I to edit, otherwise, what are the options for that?

You have two main options:
  • Get the articles from a .txt file
    • This will be harder for me as I haven't done much work with fopen/fread etc etc. It can be done though it will just mean the script will take a little longer to create

  • Get the article from a database
    • You could set up a database to store the news articles and add an input page for you and your band members to use when they want to add an article.

bladesage wrote:

Please note: This is an inquiry. It's not an order yet, so don't think I already said what I want. I may want a background image or something later, like maybe something neat inside that little text file to add returns or adjust the delay time or something.

I understand, I should point out that adding a background to the image will significantly increase the size of the image. It currently uses 20 frames to get a rough estimate of the size multiply the background file size by 20.
mtorregiani
I'm having a question...

Can the font face be changed in a Dynamic images & Static text signature?

Thanks
Jamatu
mtorregiani wrote:
I'm having a question...

Can the font face be changed in a Dynamic images & Static text signature?

Thanks


The fonts can be changed in all of the types of dynamic images.
bladesage
Okay, I believe I'll take you up on that offer Laughing.

I'd like to give the database one a shot, would you be able to make the script to view/add/edit the announcements as well?

I noticed that it seems to randomly choose a news announcement on the page load, does that mean that I can't have it cycle through them one-by-one as one image (with a small delay between each)? File size is not too much of an issue, provided we aren't talking something like 20 mb or anything.

So, the sooner the better. I like the black background just fine, and the possibility of editing colors/sizes/styles or whatever within the editing script would be nice, but not quite a necessity or anything.

Just name your price, reasonably of course.
mtorregiani
Jamatu wrote:
mtorregiani wrote:
I'm having a question...

Can the font face be changed in a Dynamic images & Static text signature?

Thanks


The fonts can be changed in all of the types of dynamic images.


Alright

I need 1 ''Dynamic images & Static text'' at the moment
Font → Minisystem Regular (you can get it in HERE

I need a 7 images rotating
PM'me when you're ready
TeenZine
Because there is diffrent time zones I was wondering if I can get a sig that said like Frih$ lotto closes at ?;00 *what ever time zone the person is on* Like pst closes at 7 and convert it to all the diffrent time zones
is that possible or is it against frihost$ tos ?
Jamatu
TeenZine wrote:
Because there is diffrent time zones I was wondering if I can get a sig that said like Frih$ lotto closes at ?;00 *what ever time zone the person is on* Like pst closes at 7 and convert it to all the diffrent time zones
is that possible or is it against frihost$ tos ?

I think that could be possible, i'd get their county of origin and find the time difference, hopefully their is a script out their that can do it because I don't think I could do it manually with the amount of countries their is!

On another note i've had quite a few requests for sigs te past few days, i'm quite busy lately building 2 websites but be patient and you will get them.
bladesage
I'm a very patient person, but how's it coming along?
Jamatu
As par our PM's i'll modify the example script to your standards.

As for creating dynamic signatures I won't be accepting anymore applications until i've finished the current ones, i've got alot going on lately and I want to stay on top of it Razz
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