Shoutbox

Can someone help me make a Halo 2 stat picture? The stats are at http://www.bungie.net/Stats/PlayerStats.aspx?player=guyguyme2003 .
I would like to have it look like http://guillaumelforum.theglassprison.net/halo2/s...rName=guyguyme2003 and I would like to see the clan stats too (link is on my stats page... take it from there, as it will change)

Thanks!

Link of the day: http://php.net/image

Look at a basic function that you're likely to need such as imagecreate() and there are loads of examples that branch out to help you do what you want to do.

Failing that plenty of tutorials exist.  I suggest webmonkey

after you can create an image with php + write text on it you will need to download the site you wish to parse into a varible a common (and semi good) way to do it is like

code:

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<?
$handle = fopen("http://www.bungie.net/Stats/PlayerStats.aspx?player=guyguyme2003", "rb");
$contents = '';
while (!feof($handle)) {
  $contents .= fread($handle, 8192);
}
fclose($handle);


?>

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(you can read about
fopen here
fread here
fclose here
)
then $contents will hold the entire stat page which you will have to  parse and cache then print onto the image.

It shouldn't be too hard if you need any help pm me  something

Man! I suck! I cant get the image to work... all i see is a blank page!

quote:

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Originally posted by Guillaume
Man! I suck! I cant get the image to work... all i see is a blank page!

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Well, what are you expecting to see? Did you make a script?

I put

code:

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<?php
header("Content-type: image/png");
$im = @imagecreate(100, 50)
   or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
$background_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 233, 14, 91);
imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5,  "This will soon be replaced with something else.", $text_color);
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>

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* WDZ saves the file on his local server and tries it

It works. The text is cut off because of the small image width, but other than that, it's fine.

Are you trying it on a server that supports PHP & GD and doesn't have any dodgy stuff like forced advertisements?

i duno if GD is there...
EDIT: For some reason, PHP doesn't work anymore.

Hmm... well, you should move the header() line so it's right above the imagepng() line. If the script is outputting any text error messages, the browser might not display them because it's expecting a PNG image. Just for clarity, here's the modified code:

code:

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<?php
$im = @imagecreate(100, 50)
   or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
$background_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 233, 14, 91);
imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5,  "This will soon be replaced with something else.", $text_color);
header("Content-type: image/png");
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>

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quote:

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Originally posted by WDZ
Hmm... well, you should move the header() line so it's right above the imagepng() line. If the script is outputting any text error messages, the browser might not display them because it's expecting a PNG image. Just for clarity, here's the modified code:

code:

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<?php
$im = @imagecreate(100, 50)
   or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
$background_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 233, 14, 91);
imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5,  "This will soon be replaced with something else.", $text_color);
header("Content-type: image/png");
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>

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Still a blank page... phpinfo() displays a blank page also.