FAH Stat Sigs (with GUI)

Mr. Brightside

Mr. Brightside

Mr. Brightside

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As I mentioned before going, I've been on holiday for the last two weeks. I didn't forget about the FAH Statsig system I had started though (http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17602540 - I would post in there but I think a new thread is justified to avoid confusion with the now unnecessary long explanatory posts).

Link to the builder: http://fahstat.piggott.me.uk

Fixes
  • Averages are now calculated correctly for all users.
  • .png and .gif backgrounds now function correctly.
Additions
  • The GUI has landed!
  • gen_qual variable allows setting of image quality (just make sure it doesn't go above the 20kB forum limit!).
  • New mode 'team' (i.e. ?mode=team) allows bypassing of the no uid specified error, handy if you want to create a team banner for use on a web page for example. Unfortunately this cannot be set via the GUI so you must create the image as though for a user and then edit the URL changing mode to 'team' instead of 'user'.
Changes
  • Statistics are now updated every three hours (was daily before).
  • uid and canvas variables have been renamed 'gen_uid' and 'gen_canvas'.
  • Operating mode no longer 'use' but 'user' instead (i.e. ?mode=user).

Thanks to the GUI you can ignore all of the above though ;) unless you currently have your signature with a URL from the old version, in which case you should replace 'uid' with 'gen_uid' and 'canvas' with 'gen_canvas' to make it work again.

Ho hum... I think that's everything. The main thing of course is the GUI, and should be relatively self explanatory. Any questions just ask me :) Unfortunately one of the things about being on holiday is the lack of an internet connection, and thus I couldn't go Googling for resources. All I had was the PHP Manual so I the layout leaves a little to be desired. The other major thing is the colour options; at present they still take a hexadecimal input (no pop up window with a palette yet :o ). Aside from that though I'm pretty pleased with it. :)

For examples of what can be achieved with it, either see the other thread or have a play around with it and see what you can do yourself. My sig at present is an example, albeit a little unimaginative (and no doubt went out of fashion during my holiday).

Sig at time of writing (to avoid confusion if I make a new one):


Note: I have been re-assigning hostnames, domain names and ip addresses (internal and external) today on my network, and so there is a possibility that some people will be temporarily unable to access any fahstat related content due to DNS propagation time.
 
Thanks for that Garp. When I made the first version they updated daily because that is the same as your version, and it is stated in the sticky that this is so because Stanford only update daily.

However when writing this version I was poking around EOC and found this:
Q: How often are the EOC Folding stats updated?
A: Every 3 hours, starting at 12 midnight central time (GMT -6). The text in the upper left corner displays general info about processing times. NOTE: The time does shift by an hour during daylight savings. Stanford only updates their data files every 3 hours, so don't ask if I can update it hourly.
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I haven't bothered to investigate myself and actually watch the stats file (this uses team10.txt too). I'm about to do so though and shall adjust the update frequency as appropriate (it's difficult to choose with different sources saying different things :p). Doesn't do any harm at least anyway, just a few more kB of traffic.

null :)
 
shadowscotland said:
only one improvement I can see - the inclusion of a user defined text string (not linked to stats) but even without that it rocks!
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I did think about that when designing it, but realised that it can be added to the background file - i.e. add some text to the background before uploading it. Advantage of this is twofold - 1) less work for me (:p) and mainly 2) keeps the GUI a bit tidier and thus hopefully making it easier to use. Of course it is then harder to make changes to said text but the compromise was worth it.

Nice sig you've got there now, it's good to see people using some inspiration :D

null :)
 
I've deleted vBulletin_logo7.gif. I shall investigate the problem uploading jpegs and pngs soon.

Reason for not making it resize the images is because some people may wish to use one smaller than 400 * 75 (400 * 20 for example as a one liner). Of course I could make it optional, as a check box when the image is uploaded but I thought people would be happy with resizing things themselves :)

Over the next few days I hope to do some reading about CSS and general client side coding, so I can get the presentation up to scratch and conforming to standards.

null :)
 
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