here are *some* of the hot words: amd,intel,ibm,cyrix,infopop now I won't give out the whole list so some of you can get a surprise while making panels
if you have images that you think could fit in and be used by everyone just drop me a PM
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no, nothing like this yet but it could be done without hassle, just search for the filename in the database and erase it if it does not exist. then each file is quite small (less than 5k) so I dunno if is really a big matter.
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by the way .... is it possible to know the required library to be installed in the server to run this hack ??
I mean which type of TTF library ?? is it freetype2 ??
and what about GD version ?? is it required to be 2.X.X ??
I am intersted to know about this information to put my server standbay and also i am crazy to know when U can post this hack for the users ....... at less give as hint
craZy of this hack which i feel its more than perfect
Hi Charles.... This looks great! I was wondering... Is there going to be a way where we can allow only certain user groups access to this hack? That would be a great perk for donating members to have.... If it's not in the plans let me be the first to suggest it while you're still working on it's release......... Thanks!
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yes this is possible eventhough it not integrated in the hack at present time (I will add it as soon as I find some time)
the way we did it here is the link is only shown to logged in user by checking the user group (try loging out to see) but I will add an other group check in the script itselft to prevent un-authorised users to access the page.
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I would definitely love to try it out. The most interesting part would be to install and compile (!!!!!) the prerequisite TTF library with PHP on my good old Windows 2000 box.
I will write down instructions for those in the same situation as I am (Windows environment I mean)
I have question about this script ,, is it possible to use it with another languages ?? for example arabic ? as u know Arabic language using Right-To-Left layout and im not sure if freetype & GD supporting arabic language
so what i mean when the script passing parameter to the library , how to change the UNICode of that string and convert it to other language character set ??
[]yes this is possible eventhough it not integrated in the hack at present time (I will add it as soon as I find some time)
the way we did it here is the link is only shown to logged in user by checking the user group (try loging out to see) but I will add an other group check in the script itselft to prevent un-authorised users to access the page. [/]
Is that why I cant see any such link (to create a panel) and try this out? I am logged in though cant find anything in the Reply page!
I've gotten a few PMs from people who seem confused by my signature - the image is dynamic and displays your information only for you (as is my avatar). The text on the last line is a random quote from several of my favorite movies.
The confusion has led some people to think that I have published their IP address in my sig for some reason.
Well, the panel graphic inspired me. I had a random quote signature that I developed a couple months back. It would take quotes from my favorite movies and translate them into a graphic image which would randomly change whenever someone was reading a message. The graphic was kind of plain, I always planned to go back and make it look nicer - the panel thing just gave me the inspiration to do it in a similiar manner.
So, I wrote my own panel generator and combined it with my random sig stuff. The "hard" part was making the panel fully dynamic in size and centering nonproportional text.
I'm planning on making it so people can add their own text for signatures and avatars.
Whats really funny is that since posting my new signature code on Friday (less than three days); the sig has served up over 36,000 impressions! And it's already gone international and shown up on boards that I can even read! lol
Like I said, I might start running paid advertising thru the network. lol
Could be very useful, as long as users do not overuse it - one of those features, where at times, it is good not to announce it, but allow the more observent ones to discover it, and then have fun, watching others say... 'How did you do that?'
Hmmmm....dunno if I'm doing something wrong but I keep getting the following message when I upload ubbt.inc.php:
Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_OLD_FUNCTION' or `T_FUNCTION' or `T_VAR' or `'}'' in /home3/www/piniononline/ubbthreads/ubbt.inc.php on line 1724
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: getmicrotime() in /home3/www/piniononline/ubbthreads/main.inc.php on line 16
Well..it sort of works now. The problem arises when I go to post the pannel in my post. I get the following error when I press the "Add to Post" button:
Warning: Undefined index: coul in /home3/www/piniononline/ubbthreads/pano/preview.php on line 47
Warning: Undefined index: fontcolor in /home3/www/piniononline/ubbthreads/pano/preview.php on line 48
Warning: Undefined index: police in /home3/www/piniononline/ubbthreads/pano/preview.php on line 49
Warning: Undefined index: texture in /home3/www/piniononline/ubbthreads/pano/preview.php on line 50
Warning: Undefined index: bordure in /home3/www/piniononline/ubbthreads/pano/preview.php on line 51
Warning: Undefined index: epaisseur in /home3/www/piniononline/ubbthreads/pano/preview.php on line 52
Warning: Undefined index: texte in /home3/www/piniononline/ubbthreads/pano/preview.php on line 53
File has been generated and [image] tags should have been added to your post
If this is not the case please add the code provided below to the text zone
Works great now Charles. Also had to fix a setting for the http address for the pannels folder. Forgot to add a "/" at the end of the address and that's why it wasn't inserting the proper web addy.
Thanks for all your hard work and patience helping me
Hiya Charles.... I've got it working.... However... I get the following errors when clicking add to post.....
Warning: Undefined index: coul in /var/www/html/threadsbeta/pano/preview.php on line 47
Warning: Undefined index: fontcolor in /var/www/html/threadsbeta/pano/preview.php on line 48
Warning: Undefined index: police in /var/www/html/threadsbeta/pano/preview.php on line 49
Warning: Undefined index: texture in /var/www/html/threadsbeta/pano/preview.php on line 50
Warning: Undefined index: bordure in /var/www/html/threadsbeta/pano/preview.php on line 51
Warning: Undefined index: epaisseur in /var/www/html/threadsbeta/pano/preview.php on line 52
Now, although I get these errors it does add the code to the post and works perfectly once you post.. But the popup.php doesn't go away and remains with those errors.... Any ideas??
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oops.... sorry, also.... how the heck can I change who accesses the thing?? I found in the ubbt...... where the number groups are but changing them seems to have no affect.....Only admin can see it right now......
Some people read their stars..... I choose to write my own
Well, since the panels are being stored versus made on-the-fly; storage might become an issue at some point if you have alot of people using this feature.
I can see where after a few months you might have a directory full of images!
There's also a couple other goodies in the keyword list! lol
Okay try the following for those who don't have the preview, copy the link of the preview image into your navigator so to get preview.php?blablabla and see if you get any errors or a blank page.
Do you believe in love at first sight, or should I walk by again?
Just a word of caution. During testing I experienced a server outage that lasted about 20 minutes. When I could finally get back into my server my HTTPD processes were running at 500MB each! While I could PING my server, the websites were down and I could not access SSH. At the time of this outage, I was testing the code here.
I waited a while and then reloaded onto my primary message boards last night. This morning my servers experienced a 3 hour outage (all because I took a nap 10 minutes before it started!). This was a hard crash.
There are no server logs to tell me what might have happened. Oddly enough, the site with the generator on it has no long entries at all for today while my other sites logs are fine.
I suggest that if you have a HEAVY server load you be cautious as this script caused the only outage my server has had (and mine is a loaded Dell with SCSI RAIDs, 1.5GB of ECC memory and the works).
I had AutoUpdate set to the default. And, truth is, I have no data to support just where the crash is occuring. I only base this word of caution on the fact I had two server problems after installed this mod when I've never had an outage on my system before.
Also, my panel below s Dynamic and served up over 30,000 times a day (last check), so I wonder if the problem has more to do with file I/O than the graphics portion.
Its hard for me to say what kind of load my server was under at the time of the crash. MTRG MySQL and Traffic data shows it to be about normal (not excessively high).
Also, looking in my panels directory I only have 63 panels. Once a panel is made, there hsouldnt be any further problems. I wonder if there isnt something that causes a problem in the way the panel code is called - i.e. good error recovery in the event you get passed some bad data?
I can try and take a look when I can find some time.
[]Okay try the following for those who don't have the preview, copy the link of the preview image into your navigator so to get preview.php?blablabla and see if you get any errors or a blank page. [/]
I still get a broken preview image.
When I copy the img src link of the broken preview image to the address bar, I get a blank page.
Otherwise this is cool.
My users have requested "Cartman" from soutpark in future addiions.
I'm going to try and load this onto a test server and then run a script to call it repeatedly to see what it does. My server is back online and no problems (removed the link to the generator); but I cant see loading it again until I know more about what caused my outages.
The pngs are being created... because they work once you add them to the post. It's just the preview that doesn't work.
I'm testing this with a small group of paid supporters. I'll probably leave it limited to that group as a "perk" of supporting us. That should minimize server load for us.
Strangest thing on my site... The preview was working just fine... I hadn't messed with it in a couple days and was using it this morning and guess what... The preview feature isn't working.... I was trying to figure out why Josh's wasn't working because we use the same type of setup and now it's got me too.... Grabbing the new preview.php file to try it out....
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That didn't help the problem Charles.... I am racking my brain trying to think if I changed something that would have resulted in the preview to stop working but I just haven't made any changes to the site since installing that the day you released it. It worked perfectly for a few days and then? I will keep thinking back and maybe recall a change I made.....
Hey Charles, thanks..... I tried it with Netscape and it worked perfectly so I cleared my cache and all temporary stuff and it's now working with explorer just fine.... Weird.... I just cleared all that yesterday...
Maybe I'm on here more than I thought....
Thanks again and my users love this too.....
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second I have 2 things which i cant solve it untile now
1. when i try to generate the panel it's look that the Classic image is not merging with the text image correctly !! it seem that there is problem with transperancy of the classic images ??!!
have a look at this which was created from my site (Server) :
2. The second problem is i cant generate the panel with another language such as Arabic ?? it's return rubish characters when i try to write in Arabic language ?? is there any way to do that ??
GD Support enabled GD Version 2.0 or higher FreeType Support enabled FreeType Linkage with freetype JPG Support enabled PNG Support enabled WBMP Support enabled
and i am using RedHat 7.3
And about Arabic I have added more than 10 Arabic TTF Fonts but still it's not working with me ... and what do u mean to switch off the other fonts ??
can u give me the basic idea on how the script send the Text string to GD & Freetype ?? I think the main problem is one of the above library is needing to convert the text string as Arabic Unicode before sending it to the place which create the image ... so we have to find which library doing this process .. coz i believe that by sending the string from the browser it using the Default encoding characeter and it's mean sending rubish characters coz what is wrote in my Text Area is not what will be in the Preview image!!
ugh... just killed a busy threads site with this one.... it quit working period I think ~50 people attempted it before I got the config file updated completely
I am still waiting for the processes to stop so I can restart it.
So Allen, This was related to you changing files around while people were using it for sure?? Got this installed on my site and would hate that to happen.....
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Digging further, I think it was partly related to their php not supporting freetype... have ~30 people attempt to make a panel without it and you'll see what I mean
about arabic you need to add something in the header to change the direction of writing but having never done it before I am not quite sure what it might be
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msula, I think that means you do not have all the correct modules installed for your PHP installation, usually its freetype or TTF support is nor correctly mapped with PHP/freetype. please conctact your host
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I recompiled PHP with freetype and such and everything works great [/]good news usually people who experience problems with this script don't have all the necessary plugins installed.
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[]patt said: Charles i send u a PM with all infos..... [/]patt is your problem solely with the stylesheet?
I just logged in using mozilla and ie and changed my style sheet on both and got the right colors for the popup (also the preview seems to work on mozilla)
for the default image you might want to modify the parameters in the config file to match the one you used (normally the default image is automatcly generated based on these settings)
as for the translation its in your language/german directory and I won't have access to it, please sent it to me by email.
please give me more informations on what might be wrong.
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i find out.... it's a problem with use default if u edit in Main Configuration>>>>Display preferences, number of shown threads, languages, colors... >>>>Which style sheet (skin) do you want to use for your display?>>>>"Always use default" after the program is looking for a usedefault.css *gg*
thanks, will include your translation to the release.
I don't get why you included popup.php and static to your zip file since the size of the window is only decided by the javascript. Also static is made depending on each user's settings in the config file and what images are accessible so it will gwt overwritten anyway.
the fix for the css is actually very easy, will try to do it sometime today.
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incl. the popup.php because i change inside the popupwindow size for deepbluedev2.css ....the new static_cache.php is importantly for the alphabetical order of the panels in the popup..........
I've been successfully using the Panel Generator on 6.2.1 for a couple of months. Two days ago I upgraded to 6.2.3 and since then, the Panels being generated show up as reversed horizontally (the writing and image are backwards). The image preview no longer works, but an image *is* generated. Also, I get an error message: Notice: Undefined variable: p in /pano/panneau.inc.php on line 523
To follow-up... my panels are now working properly again and I didn't change anything. Perhaps my hosting company was doing some work on the server or something. Nevertheless, I don't need a mirror to read panels anymore
I ask, as I don't quite have it up and going right....
I get the panel generator to pop up, everything looks good, but the moment I change anything the preview gets a broken image link. And nothing passes through to the message.
HOWEVER I think this is due to it calling the PHPURL twice. If you click on the url of the preview on your site you shall see what I mean. At least thats what I have found
Nope yours works here. I was refering to the post before. Mine does the same thing as his site. The preview does not work. When I click to the non working image to see the URL. I reveal it has the base PHPURL twice. I double checked the setting 3 times and they are right. The panel program works and inserts an image just the preview seems to be calling the URL twice.
I just checked it again on my site and the preview is working but it was doing what I meantioned the day before. Weird to say the least.
And it worked for me today although the one on my site did not work yesterday but does today. When my site was not working I checked and found the that double URL problems.
Could be a browser interaction error with the program?
yeah it doesn't work I'll have to take a look maybe the server configuration was changed for some reason. I did change any files sincve it was installed here.
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do you use apache 2? this error is due to php not having the ttf handler installed but if you use the GD library provided with apache it should work. What is your configuration?
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[]Charles said: yes this line is correct it is for fonts that do not have accents in them <img src="/threads/php/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
usually the no preview error is due to some software missing in your php installation.
Are you certain that you have the GD extension and TTF support installed? [/]
No I'm not....
I just checked, and as I'm using a stand alone php install, (of course it didn't have the gd module going), I re-installed php with-gd and that did not correct the problem.
I looked at my apache info and freetype 1.3.1 is installed.
[]Charles said: do you use apache 2? this error is due to php not having the ttf handler installed but if you use the GD library provided with apache it should work. What is your configuration? [/]
Not sure... let me ask the guy who runs the server to check out this thread. Thanks.
[]JoshPet said: []Charles said: do you use apache 2? this error is due to php not having the ttf handler installed but if you use the GD library provided with apache it should work. What is your configuration? [/]
Not sure... let me ask the guy who runs the server to check out this thread. Thanks. [/]
Josh put the generator on my server and I have a win2k with IIS. I have all of the permissions set for the IUSER for the folder. I have a link for myphpadmin, if you need that just send me a PM. It looks like all of the DB files were created.
This requires some specific graphic libraries on your server too.... so I haven't been able to make this work everywhere. Some depends on server setup.
[]JoshPet said: Depends What error you are getting?
This requires some specific graphic libraries on your server too.... so I haven't been able to make this work everywhere. Some depends on server setup. [/] Josh,
Thanks for the quick reply!
I am not getting an error, was trying to figure out if I had an error in the code somewhere. It just plain out right doesn't work.
Some issues can be permissions related, others can be not having the right libraries installed with PHP. []Pre-requisites - server must have the GD library and compiled with ttfsupport [/]
This is probably one of the most complex things to configure. So post smoe specifics and probably Charles may have some advice.
[]JoshPet said: Elaborate on "doesn't work right".
Some issues can be permissions related, others can be not having the right libraries installed with PHP. []Pre-requisites - server must have the GD library and compiled with ttfsupport [/]
This is probably one of the most complex things to configure. So post smoe specifics and probably Charles may have some advice.
Was gonna load this on my host and am wondering whats the trials and tribulations and whats the latest source? Is there anything to be wary of and what database the table script writes to?
Hmm just noticed Charles removed the original version? I would contact charles and see why he removed it and just didn't update a new version into the attachments when he released his next incarnation so unless he says I can. I won't let me shoot him a PM.
Here is a quick and dirty hack to show a link for the Panel Generator next to the Quick Reply box in showflat. (Thanks to Omegetron for the snippets from him photopost mod)
[]scroungr said: I shot him a PM and never got a reply... [/]forgot to update my email adress doh! well I can assure you that the current version should not work on 6.5 unless so bits are redone but I do not plan to update this mod until the next gen ubb is in beta stage.
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