How do add those picture things on side???

ShdwdrgnNaruto

2004-09-24 07:30:59 pm

Keep up with Maru-Mari.

How do you put those picture things on the side????????
Twisted Evil

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Chet Rippo

2004-09-24 07:37:11 pm

Okay.... um.....
Click on the word profile at the top of the screen. There you you scroll down till you see something like Avatar control panel. Then you could upload it off of your desktop or link off of a site, but under the size limit. Then when you do that press the button submit, and there you have it, your own avatar! :D

ShdwdrgnNaruto

2004-09-25 08:21:44 pm

Thanks man. You're a big help.

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trh

2004-09-25 10:11:16 pm

satans in town

Super-Metroid-Thingy

2004-09-26 02:41:08 pm

How do you make avatars rotate?

elyscape

2004-09-26 03:02:11 pm

You need a script of some sort to rotate them for you, and then you need to fool phpBB into thinking it's actually an image. It's not terribly difficult.

KennyMan666

2004-09-26 03:29:03 pm

Viking

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Quote from elyscape:

You need a script of some sort to rotate them for you, and then you need to fool phpBB into thinking it's actually an image. It's not terribly difficult.

My RAS (Rotating Avatar Script) won't work on this site.

Let me do a little test.

If this image doesn't rotate, then my test failed.

...I fail.

elyscape

2004-09-26 04:57:01 pm

Ah, see, that won't work. You need to have a script that doesn't need a questionmark after it. Then, the image URL goes like so:
http://www.host.com/script.php//.jpg
The only problem is then you need your own script/host. Not terribly hard to procure, though.

KennyMan666

2004-09-27 01:53:53 am

Viking

Precursor

That explains it.

The only thing that confuses me is that the one I have from Cut and Paste Scripts work perfectly on another phpBB forum.

elyscape

2004-09-27 07:50:38 pm

Quote from KennyMan666:

That explains it.

The only thing that confuses me is that the one I have from Cut and Paste Scripts work perfectly on another phpBB forum.

Well, then, the M2K2 forums hate you.
If you want, I could set up an avatar script for ya. In fact, I could make it multi-user and still bypass the question mark problem. Would you like me to?

Red Scarlet

2004-09-27 07:54:45 pm

I('d) like to watch (some MP3 runs)

I dunno, Nate did it for me because he's smart and stuff.

GameAddict

2004-09-27 08:15:39 pm

Quote from elyscape:

Quote from KennyMan666:

That explains it.

The only thing that confuses me is that the one I have from Cut and Paste Scripts work perfectly on another phpBB forum.

Well, then, the M2K2 forums hate you.
If you want, I could set up an avatar script for ya. In fact, I could make it multi-user and still bypass the question mark problem. Would you like me to?

If it works, can I have it as well?

elyscape

2004-09-27 08:23:01 pm

Quote from GameAddict:

If it works, can I have it as well?

Actually, my idea is to host it myself, and have the url be something like this:
http://www.mysite.com/avatar.php/GameAddict/[PUT_ANYTHING_YOU_WANT_HERE].jpg
And then it'd read the phrase "GameAddict" and spew out one of your images. I've done stuff like this before, and it works fine.
I'll have it done by or on Friday.

nate

2004-09-27 08:38:35 pm

Quote from KennyMan666:

The only thing that confuses me is that the one I have from Cut and Paste Scripts work perfectly on another phpBB forum.

what version is the phpbb there?

KennyMan666

2004-09-28 06:27:28 am

Viking

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Quote from elyscape:

Quote from KennyMan666:

That explains it.

The only thing that confuses me is that the one I have from Cut and Paste Scripts work perfectly on another phpBB forum.

Well, then, the M2K2 forums hate you.
If you want, I could set up an avatar script for ya. In fact, I could make it multi-user and still bypass the question mark problem. Would you like me to?

I would love you if you did.

Nate: 2.0.8.

nate

2004-09-28 07:58:29 am

ok, so less than 2.0.9. i can't remember if it broke in 2.0.9 or 2.0.8, but your experience suggests that it was still working in 2.0.8. actually, i interpret it as a security feature to keep people from taking over forums using malicious pictures (e.g. setting your avatar to "virus.php"). too bad it's kind of easy to bypass if you have knowledge of how file types are [normally] sent over the internet.

elyscape

2004-09-30 06:46:45 pm

Okay, I finished the script, and I'll host avatars for whoever, but there's one minor problem:
My host is down right now.
So, in the meantime, you can look at a working version of the script on my backup server, but I won't be able to let anyone else use it for a couple of days.

Because I couldn't remember (or find) the code for my old random avatar script, I used the base source for the script Nate uses (ganked from his folder). I then proceeded to mod it up the ass, and the result is as follows:

URL of example: http://kehillahhigh.org/pub/eyoung/avatar.php/test/hi/mom/blah.jpg
Result (max image size that will appear below is 100KB):

This username has 4 images to it. Refresh and you'll get other ones.

There are two important parts in the URL aside from the actual script location:
1) The first folder after the script name. In this case, it's test. That's how the script knows whose folder to check.
2) The (whatever).jpg filename at the end. This fools phpBB into thinking it's an image. Technically, it could be .gif or .png as well, but it doesn't change anything at all, so it doesn't matter.

I still have one thing I don't like about the script, which is the method it uses to transmit the image, but I'll have that fixed around the time my main server comes back up. Also, I might add size limiters, so it'll ensure that it doesn't send an image over some given number of KB.
[EDIT] The image transmission problem is now fixed. So (hopefully) is the problem it seemed to be having where the image would get cached and stop changing after a while. [/EDIT]

The cool thing is how you add a new user. Here's how: you make a new folder, and throw images in it. For example, the username 'test', as I use here, has all its images stored in the folder 'test', which is in the same folder as the script itself. If I wanted to make a username 'elyscape', I'd just make a folder 'elyscape', throw in some images, and invent a URL with 'elyscape' as the folder after 'avatar.php'. Invalid usernames, or usernames with folders that contain a total of 0 images, will simply not return a picture, instead of crashing like the source script.

Okay, I finished the script, and I'll host avatars for whoever, but there's one minor problem:
My host is down right now.
So, in the meantime, you can look at a working version of the script on my backup server, but I won't be able to let anyone else use it for a couple of days.

Because I couldn't remember (or find) the code for my old random avatar script, I used the base source for the script Nate uses (ganked from his folder). I then proceeded to mod it up the ass, and the result is as follows:

URL of example: [url]http://kehillahhigh.org/pub/eyoung/avatar.php/test/hi/mom/blah.jpg[/url]
Result (max image size that will appear below is 100KB):
[img]http://kehillahhigh.org/pub/eyoung/avatar.php/test/hi/mom/blah.jpg[/img]
This username has 4 images to it. Refresh and you'll get other ones.

There are two important parts in the URL aside from the actual script location:
1) The first folder after the script name. In this case, it's test. That's how the script knows whose folder to check.
2) The (whatever).jpg filename at the end. This fools phpBB into thinking it's an image. Technically, it could be .gif or .png as well, but it doesn't change anything at all, so it doesn't matter.

I still have one thing I don't like about the script, which is the method it uses to transmit the image, but I'll have that fixed around the time my main server comes back up. Also, I might add size limiters, so it'll ensure that it doesn't send an image over some given number of KB.
[EDIT] The image transmission problem is now fixed. So (hopefully) is the problem it seemed to be having where the image would get cached and stop changing after a while. [/EDIT]

The cool thing is how you add a new user. Here's how: you make a new folder, and throw images in it. For example, the username 'test', as I use here, has all its images stored in the folder 'test', which is in the same folder as the script itself. If I wanted to make a username 'elyscape', I'd just make a folder 'elyscape', throw in some images, and invent a URL with 'elyscape' as the folder after 'avatar.php'. Invalid usernames, or usernames with folders that contain a total of 0 images, will simply not return a picture, instead of crashing like the source script.

Yoshi348

2004-09-30 08:52:00 pm

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Ready and willing.

Sweet. Now if I only could appropriatesome more potential avatars...

EDIT: 1750th post.

elyscape

2004-10-02 02:19:10 pm

Alright, I got my webspace back. If anyone wants to use my script, PM me and I'll work it out with you.