[Resolved] How to use graphics to spell out words?

[mband2000]

Hi ... again

I have an idea for my site:

Instead of placing the user's name in plain old text... I would like the look of their username to be much more intergrated into my site... so I want to use each letter of the user's name and place it as individual graphics to spell out that user's name.

I know for starters I'll have to make 26 graphics.. plus 9 numbers.. and some symbols.

But what about coding? where do I start?

[Installer]

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[drawmack]

only 9 number which one are you ommiting? 0-9 = ten numbers.😃

Actually you'll need 26 lowercase letters, 26 uppercase letters, 10 numbers and whatever punctuation you're allowing in your username field. So it'll be 62+ graphics.

Okay now that, that's out of the way. It's pretty easy.

Refer to http://www.asciitable.com and name each graphic after it's ascii value. Then in the code just do something like this:

<?php
function str2img($string) {
    $retval = '';
    for($i=0;$i<strlen($string);$i++)
        $retval .= '<img src="images/' . ord($string{$i}) . '.jpg">';
    return $retval;
} //end str2img
?>

[mband2000]

Originally posted by drawmack
only 9 number which one are you ommiting? 0-9 = ten numbers.😃

Doh! .. I knew I shouldn't have skipped my 2nd grade classes.. sigh

But thanks!!! I'm gonna give this a try asap!

[mband2000]

Ok.. I went to the Ascii webpage thingy.. and I see different colums .. which one am I to use?

[drawmack]

Originally posted by mband2000
Ok.. I went to the Ascii webpage thingy.. and I see different colums .. which one am I to use?

Dec column

[mband2000]

hmmm I just tried with a few letters... and I didn't get any errors.. so got nothing on the screen.

[drawmack]

if you're having problems post the code. My blind guess is that the image links are pointing to images that don't exist on the server.

[mband2000]

here is the code..

<? include("./inc/global.inc");

$string = "Bad";

function str2img($string) { 
    $retval = ''; 
    for($i=0; $i < strlen($string); $i++) {
        $retval = '<img src="./images/test/'.ord($string{$i}).'.gif">'; 
    return $retval; 
	}
} //end str2img 

?>

[drawmack]

try this

<?php
include("./inc/global.inc"); 

$string = "Bad"; 

echo str2img($string);

function str2img($string) {  

    $retval = '';  

    for($i=0; $i < strlen($string); $i++)
        $retval = '<img src="./images/test/'.ord($string{$i}).'.gif">';  

    return $retval;  

} //end str2img
?>

[mband2000]

well that time a letter DID show up 😃

But it was only one letter...🙁

The letter "D" showed up.

[drawmack]

ooppss... try this

<?php
include("./inc/global.inc"); 

$string = "Bad"; 

echo str2img($string);

function str2img($string) {  

    $retval = '';  

    for($i=0; $i < strlen($string); $i++)
        $retval .= '<img src="./images/test/'.ord($string{$i}).'.gif">';  

    return $retval;  

} //end str2img
?>

[mband2000]

WORKED LIKE A CHARM!!

You get 100 cool points for that!!!!

[drawmack]

Originally posted by mband2000
WORKED LIKE A CHARM!!

You get 100 cool points for that!!!!

Greate now I only have a cool point defecit of 1000 points.

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