What happened to the Whatpulse signature image service? Anyone know?

Err .... i tht it still works ?? But even i cant find the link to the sig thing on the online stats page

They (sig site) were on http://whatpulse.afraid.org last i checked but that site is timing out.

I made a thread about this a few months back .... let me check it ....

If nothing works you could ask a good coder to make a whatpulse stat sig using php

The service needs help with hosting. Nick2588 asked for help on the WhatPulseForums on 2005-04-04, but the thread seems to heve been forgotten, even though it has been made sticky. The last post to the thread was on 2005-13-05, and no posts implied that the service was comming back up.

Update:
Another signature image service is now up at http://offbeat-zero.net/pulse/ .

This service uses your WebAPI. You must turn on WebAPI in your Whatpulse profile, and wait until your information is syndicated. More information about WebAPI is available at the Whatpulse website.

If you know php you can create your own, remember to do a bit of caching. If you need help just ask.

I need help, so I'm asking. I am a PHP newbie, but can usually make out the meaning of things.

do you have any webhosting that has php and had GD compiled?

I have hosting with PHP and MySQL. What is GD? My PHP info should be here (link), but something seems a bit poofed ATM. I'll create the file again now, but maybe there is something wrong with the server. It all worked before.

Edit:
I posted the wrong URI, thanks Lee Jeffery.

Update:
PHP info all working now.

@ravo: its here http://home.exetel.com.au/rav0/info.php

and yes you have GD

http://home.exetel.com.au/rav0/info.php wasn't working when i tested it before posting, it is now though. I did use the right URI, but I posted the wrong one . Will edit above.

So what is GD and what does it do?

How hard will it be to make my own whatpulse signatures?

well i suggest you read, http://uk.php.net/gd that should tell you all you need to know, you wont be able to make a php signiture without knowing GD.

As GD is the graphics library for PHP, it contains all the functions to create and output images.

Err ..... i already have a sig maker which is used for whatpulse
It was made by -dt- so u could ask him

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Originally posted by John Anderton
Err ..... i already have a sig maker which is used for whatpulse
It was made by -dt- so u could ask him

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Yeah dt they seem to be all the functions needed, also setting colours:
the first colour set is the backround and colours after can be used to colour the text.

Use http://uk2.php.net/imagecolorallocate to set colours

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Originally posted by -dt-
after looking at those functions you should have a general idea of how to put all this together just post if you need help

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