Shoutbox

Hello.

I'm currently making some new signatures & avatars.
I want them to be random, but I dont want for example the random avatar script to show my current avatar and the random sig script to show another signature...
I want the avatar & sig to match...

I was wondering, is it possible to do?

I thought something like this:

When the random avatar script is executed, it will write the avatar number to a file.
When the random sig script is executed, it will read the avatar number and it will display the corresponding signature.

Thank you

Yes it is possible to do it afaik

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Originally posted by Mike
When the random avatar script is executed, it will write the avatar number to a file.
When the random sig script is executed, it will read the avatar number and it will display the corresponding signature.

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Exactly what i was thinking .... make a file to link the sig and the corresponding avy so that they are triggered together .... but it could be tough. Theoretically it can be done ... practically ... not sure but its tough i think

its easy really

just have one of the scripts writing to a file AFTER the picture is output

and then have both of them reading the file BEFORE the image is output

this is the easiest way to guarantee they both have the corresponding image

or could could make them random by time, that way there will be no need to write to a file.

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Originally posted by Veggie
or could could make them random by time, that way there will be no need to write to a file.

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U mean .... but then how will the avy and the sig match
Actually i thought of this a long time back but since i dont make matching sigs and avy's i dropped it
I am making a tech sig right now so mabbe ill make a tech avy too

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Originally posted by John Anderton

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Originally posted by Veggie
or could could make them random by time, that way there will be no need to write to a file.

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U mean .... but then how will the avy and the sig match

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You obviously have to calculate the timestamp so that they match.

I'm going to sleep now, else I'd do a few tests.

in sql record the IP and the random set used , then look it up in your sig/avatar then remove that IP , should provide less mismatches then the other mentioned ways because your targetting the user

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Originally posted by -dt-
in sql record the IP and the random set used , then look it up in your sig/avatar then remove that IP , should provide less mismatches then the other mentioned ways because your targetting the user

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Well, my server allows to make sql dbs but I dont know how to do this...

I might just use the file method...

Do you have phpMyAdmin installed? I believe that allows you to create and manage MySQL DBs.

Do you really think it's (MySQL) that necessary for a sig/av script? It could be easily done with a file.