php Sig Rotate Help

nikebee · 21 May 2006 at 01:37

hey all,

can't get a sig rotation working for some reason.

i've made a www.projectTTA.com/sigs directory on my server where i've got a rotate.php script, then i've got www.projectTTA.com/sigs/sigs where i've got all the actual images kept.

but when i put [*img]www.projectTTA.com/rotate.php[/*img] (minus the asterix) it doesn't work.

two scripts i've tried for the php file are as follows

Code:

<?php


$files = glob('{*.PNG,*.png,*.JPG,*.jpg,*.GIF,*.gif}', GLOB_BRACE);
readfile($files[array_rand($files)]);


?>

thats from http://robm.me.uk/articles/image-rotation-in-php/

and i've tried the code from the sticky in General Discusion

Code:

<? 

$array[200]; 
$elem = 0; 
$dirname = "sigs"; 
$dh = opendir($dirname); 
while ($file = readdir($dh)) { 
if (!is_dir("$dirname/$file")) 
$array[$elem] = $file; 
$elem = $elem + 1; 
} 

srand((double)microtime() * 10000000); 
$rand_keys = array_rand($array); 
$temp = $array[$rand_keys]; 

header("Location: $dirname/$temp"); 

?>

anyone got any clues as to whats i'm doing wrong?

edit:

the two sigs i'm trying to rotate are at:
http://www.projecttta.com/sigs/sigs/1.jpg
http://www.projecttta.com/sigs/sigs/2.jpg

and both are actually there

ClearChaos · 21 May 2006 at 02:18

pretty sure everything should be in the same folder (/sigs) not in 2 seperate folders for it to work

Beansprout · 21 May 2006 at 09:37

[*img]http://www....

hendrix · 21 May 2006 at 14:16

Are you sure your host allows for php?

robmiller · 21 May 2006 at 14:36

You're missing the http://

hendrix · 21 May 2006 at 15:09

http://www.projecttta.com/sigs/rotate.php

Doesn't look like it supports php.

Beansprout · 21 May 2006 at 17:57

It does, at least, netpivotal.com's Linux plans do.

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>sigs</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
&lt;?php 
<p><br>
  $files = glob('{*.PNG,*.png,*.JPG,*.jpg,*.GIF,*.gif}', GLOB_BRACE);<br>
  readfile($files[array_rand($files)]);</p>
<p><br>

  ?&gt;</p>
</body>
</html>

What's happened is you've copied this in the design view of some HTML editor.

Open notepad, whack in:

Code:

<?php


$files = glob('{*.PNG,*.png,*.JPG,*.jpg,*.GIF,*.gif}', GLOB_BRACE);
readfile($files[array_rand($files)]);


?>

And save it as a .php file then upload it

nikebee · 22 May 2006 at 15:07

hendrix said:
http://www.projecttta.com/sigs/rotate.php

Doesn't look like it supports php.

the host does, i'm with NetPivotal's Linux plans that do support it..

a quick note, is that i did have the http://... i just didn't type it in my original post

shall try the plain old notepad bit now (i did it in dreamweaver before)

nikebee · 22 May 2006 at 15:10

http://www.projecttta.com/sigs/rotate.php

copied and pasted into notepad, saved as a php...

and... still nothing :-/

any ideas

Beansprout · 22 May 2006 at 17:38

What's in the sigs directory? Also, rename the file to ".phps" so we can see exactly what it contains

nikebee · 22 May 2006 at 18:44

http://www.projectTTA.com/sigs/rotate.phps

the only thing in the /sigs directory is the rotate.php(s) file...

then in the /sigs/sigs directory i've got the sigs i want to rotate.

robmiller · 22 May 2006 at 19:02

Everything should be in the same directory though, like the instructions say.

Conrad11 · 22 May 2006 at 19:23

How to create a rotating signature!

Hi there,

Just follow these instructions:

1. Create a file called index.php and open it in notepad.

2. Paste the following code into that file and save it.

Code:

<?php

$files = glob('{*.PNG,*.png,*.JPG,*.jpg,*.GIF,*.gif}', GLOB_BRACE);
readfile($files[array_rand($files)]);

?>

3. Have all your images that you would like to rotate in either: .PNG , .GIF or .JPG format.

4. Upload the images and the index.php file into the same directory on you PHP enabled webhost/webserver. You should see something like the following when viewing the directory:

5. Now that they are uploaded have the direct url to the index.php file handy and ready to type, including the BB IMG tags (see below). For instance the url could be, including the IMG BB tags:

direct url to index.php said:

6. Go to edit your signature and type the direct url to index.php code that you got in the previous section. You should see something similar to the following:

7. Click on preview to check it works, and you would see something similar to below:

8. If you see something similar then you have successfully added a rotating signature and you can click save. If not you must have done something wrong whilst following instructions.

Hope this helps!

Beansprout · 22 May 2006 at 19:29

That's nice but you should've used Rob's script rather that that weird and restrictive one

robmiller · 22 May 2006 at 19:30

Why limit it to just PNG files, and why bother using GD instead of just outputting the file directly (thus saving a hell of a lot of resources)?

Conrad11 · 22 May 2006 at 19:32

Lol......sorry...you lot are quick to critise!.....only kidding.

....it was an example, i didnt mean to say follow the instructions religiously

[edit]

I edited the post to include the script you suggested then beansprout....you lot happy yet

Beansprout · 22 May 2006 at 19:43

nikebee · 23 May 2006 at 00:17

strange, i've popped the three images into the directory with the php script in it and now it just generates random text.

http://www.projecttta.com/sigs/rotate.php

:confused:

it's definately php enabled, we've had forums on the website before we stopped working on the site, so no problems with php...

hmm... just checked the forums and get this

phpBB : Critical Error

Could not connect to the database

Tican · 23 May 2006 at 00:19

nikebee said:
strange, i've popped the three images into the directory with the php script in it and now it just generates random text.

http://www.projecttta.com/sigs/rotate.php

it's definately php enabled, we've had forums on the website before we stopped working on the site, so no problems with php...

hmm... just checked the forums and get this

Yes, it will generate random code until its in img tags:

^^ See

works

Edit:

This is code for your sig (you should know though, as your using a pic sig atm )

PHP:

[img]http://www.projecttta.com/sigs/rotate.php[/img]

nikebee · 23 May 2006 at 00:26

DJ Binks said:
*snip*

lol yeah

but surely if you just go to www.projectTTA.com/sigs/rotate.php you would see the images anyway? works with everyone elses...

add that to the fact i just previewed

Code:

[ img]http://www.projecttta.com/sigs/rotate.php[/ img]

in my sig and it was blank (without the spaces)