Need help on a little project.

matteh117

I dont quite know how to explain this...

Ive seen sites that have signatures for games that automaticaly take information and add onto the image (eg. magic lvl 55).

I wanted to make a similar system that will have information filled in by the user, then added to the image (sig).

If someone could help me even the slightest on this, It would be very much appreciated.

Contacting me via AIM will be quickest.
THANKS.

EDIT: Ive found out these are called "dynamic sigs".

kpzani

You get an image and use the gd library to change it.

So you would have an image file ready. and then create a php gd variable from it, then add your text, then render the final image.

If you want to expand on your question like provide details of where the text would come from and what the vars would be called and what the path to the image would be (relative to your script) then I'll knock up a sample for you.

or have a look at the php manual under image functions.

rehfeld

you can create images dynamically with php's gd library

www.php.net/gd

theres tons of info/tutorials found via a search

matteh117

Im wanting to make the dynamic signature for a game called 'runescape' (runescape.com).

The information will be pulled from the highscores and look like this (if possible).. http://rsbandb.com/index.php?page=sig

Thank in advance? :p .

kpzani

so you make a form with a text box on it name the text box Username then set the form to submit to another page via POST.

create a standard image for the sign and store it somewhere on the server.

then you would do something like this in the form handler page

// set these
$tc = array(255, 0,0);
$imgsrc = "images/sig.jpg";
$textx = 10;
$texty = 10;
$textsize = 12;
$font = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luxisr.ttf";

// create a GD image from the base image
$img = imagecreatefromjpeg($imgsrc);

// add your text colour to the image palette
$colour = imagecolorallocate($img, $tc[0], $tc[1], $tc[2]);

// write the text
imagettftext($img, $textsize, 0, $textx, $texty, $colour, $_POST["Username"]);

// output image here
imagejpeg($img, "finishedsig.jpg");

echo("ALL DONE see image - finishedsig.jpg");

Does this make sense?

matteh117

To be honest. That doesnt make much sense to me.

Ive found out the link to highscores is http://hiscore.runescape.com/aff/runescape/hiscorepersonal.cgi?username=$username . Where $username would be replaced with what the user types into the form.

That link cant be accessed through a normal page. I THINK it has to be inside a frame for it to work?

I would also like everyone to know that I dont have a clue about GD programming. So if someone could make me a script (im being cheaky now!) around the size of 300x100 with just a plain background and all thay information getting displayed (skills from runescape).

If no-one has the time for this, then dont worry. Thanks to everyone who has tried helping the newb.