countdown sigs

[mealexme]

Anyone know where I can get a count down clock to put in my sig? I did one, but it had too many characters when I pasted it into my sig. I tried tinyurl, but it didnt work

[XmisterIS]

just write one in php using gd2.0 and upload it to freewebs. that's what i did when i had one! 30 min job, if that.

[TC]

just write one in php using gd2.0 and upload it to freewebs. that's what i did when i had one! 30 min job, if that.

 

I read this after reading your thread about your mum with computers.

Then felt just like your Mum Age is a horrible thing.

[mealexme]

I have to admit, I'm feeling rather old right now!

[XmisterIS]

I have to admit, I'm feeling rather old right now!

 

You're considerably younger than me! (I think ...)

[XmisterIS]

Here you go, I found the code I wrote - I put it on limedomains not freewebs (my mistake!)

Anyway, it would seem that limedomains was sold to a bunch of incompetents and has since gone bust, so just do a google search for "free PHP hosting" and modify the following script as you require. The bits you'll need to change are indicated by *** ... *** comments. It's not difficult to figure it out with a bit of help from Google even if you're not a programmer.

 

<?php

//Create the image resource.
$im = @imagecreate(400, 30)  // *** INCREASE THE VALUE OF THE SECOND PARAMETER FOR LONGER MESSAGES ***
or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image resource");

//Derestriction date and difference from now.
$derestime = mktime(0, 0, 0, 3, 23, 2011);  //23-03-11 *** MODIFY THE COUNTDOWN DATE HERE ***

$difftime = $derestime - time();
$months = date("m", $difftime);
$days = date("j", $difftime);;

// *** CONSTRUCT THE MESSAGE TO BE DISPLAYED ***
$remmsg = ">>> ".$months." months, ".$days." days to derestriction! <<<";

//Randomise the colour scheme.
$col[0] = rand(0, 255);
$col[1] = 255 - $col[0];
$col[2] = rand(127, 255);

shuffle($col);
list($red, $green, $blue) = $col;

$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, $red, $green, $blue);

//Set the background colour.
$rect_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66);

//Draw the image.
imagesetthickness($im, 2);
imagerectangle($im, 0, 0, 399, 29, $rect_color);
imagestring($im, 5, 6, 7, $remmsg, $text_color);

//Write the image as a PNG to STDOUT.
header("Content-type: image/png");
imagepng($im);

//Clean up.
imagecolordeallocate($text_color);
imagecolordeallocate($rect_color);
imagedestroy($im);

?>

[XmisterIS]

It's not OO - imagecolordeallocate is a function that requires a resource that is returned by imagecolorallocate. (GD was written long before PHP became OO).

But ... Ooops! I made an error there - it's obviously a back up file that I copied from by mistake - you need to pass $im as the first arg and the colour resource as the second arg.

imagecolordeallocate($im, $text_color);

imagecolordeallocate($im, $rect_color);

That should do the trick!

What is arboresence? I have never heard of it.