Topic: Avatar Rotation Script

[ccbtimewiz]

Do you ever get bored of having the same old avatar all the time? Too much of a hassel to go out and change it when you want an update?

I recently finished my random avatar script, which allows you to have a number of avatars rotate at a random rate upon every refresh!

Example (refresh this thread to see it in action):



(NOTE-- The above example is MY Colette avatar wheel. No touch! >.<)

Interesting enough? Want to try it? If so, make sure you have your own server or ask a friend that does for space. There are not many free hosts that let you run PHP scripts.

(download attached files)

Snapshot of my source code:
http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/9396/02212009131450.png

Change $path (variable within AvatarControl.php) to any directory (you could even make it hidden like I sorta did) that contains all your image files. Upload avatar.php in any location that you want it to appear in.

You need to name all the images you want to use like so, and place them in the directory you defined in $path:

:

1.png
2.png
3.gif
4.jpg
You can use .png, .gif, .jpg, and .jpeg. If you want to add more, edit $formats (variable within AvatarControl.php) to include it.

You must have only ONE image with a certain number, so you can't have 1.jpg and 1.png in the same folder, otherwise it will NOT load image one. This script was created to RANDOMIZE your avatars, so they'll appear in ANY order.

You can substitute the .php extension in the link to your image with .png by editing .htaccess file or creating a .htaccess file in the directory where avatar.php is and have it contain the following:

:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule avatar.png avatar.php
You *might* need to change the paths on that according to how you set it up, but by default it works without the direct paths.

[bigguy]

Cool, nice little trick ya got there.

[Smoky]

lol its been spread around enough lol.. CCB knows what i mean.. i think its kewl.. might have to try it out on sigs.. now that would be good too.. hmm... 

[brianjw]

I did it on sigs once. It was cool! But me being a graphic wizard they were so high quality *sarcasm* and I deleted them. Lol

[H]

Looks pretty similar to the script I use, but more polished :P

[ccbtimewiz]

Looks pretty similar to the script I use, but more polished :P

I wonder why.. :P

[lax.slash]

Thanks! I use a different version for userbars, but I might have to try this method out. 

[ccbtimewiz]

I've completely rewritten this script.

I'll be updating this post soon.

[Smoky]

kewl beans CCB 

[ccbtimewiz]

Yeah, I managed to cut my code in half and keep the same function-- while allowing you to put avatars of any name instead of using 1.ext, 2.ext, etc.

I'll post my update in a bit. I need to clean/double check the syntax.

[H]

Yeah, I managed to cut my code in half and keep the same function-- while allowing you to put avatars of any name instead of using 1.ext, 2.ext, etc.

I'll post my update in a bit. I need to clean/double check the syntax.

Surely that involves scanning the entire directory, which would be incredibly bad for performance if you had many avatars

[ccbtimewiz]

Surely that involves scanning the entire directory, which would be incredibly bad for performance if you had many avatars

Not so much as glob() searches for all the pathnames matching the pattern that is set.

So it would only scan the directory for image-like files that are defined in the script, and then those images that are found are cached so the script doesn't need to constantly run over and over again.

[ccbtimewiz]

Here's a screen of my soon-to-be posted script:

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/6378/04022009215858.png

[Link]

Wow, TIFF? That'd suck up bandwidth like crazy!

[ccbtimewiz]

TIFF is still an image format.

Likewise, I added it in there as a default option to grab-- you can remove it or not upload any TIFF files in your avatar directory. It's up to you.