Web programming guys...know any place I can figure out how to do this?

[vi edit]

Before you click, it's a link to a an image. There is a script running that pulls your IP, ISP, and browser version and dumps it into an image. I would like to know how to do know if there are any free versions of this script that I could grab and use.

click me

 

[jfall]

Thats pretty cool. I wonder if they used image magik

 

[Rias]

It's pretty easy to do in plain cgi, they take your ip address, the domain you're comming from (not your isp) and something that checks your useragent and superimposes it onto an image.

 

[wedi42]

how would you make a .jpg run the cgi ?
i could see linking to a .cgi and producing a .jpg but not vice versa.

 

[brentman]

could it be a custom error page? perhaps there is no vipersig.jpg in that folder and thats the error page it generates?

just a thought.

maybe some kind of remapped file extension setting on the server. (ISAPI or other filter)

its cool either way.

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Before you click, it's a link to a an image. There is a script running that pulls your IP, ISP, and browser version and dumps it into an image. I would like to know how to do know if there are any free versions of this script that I could grab and use.

click me

I made something similar under http://www.elitepics.ch although I only take one picture and put a small logo on the bottom. You might check out http://ch.php.net/manual/en/function.imagefttext.php or http://ch.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php for all image functions.

I think I could make an open source sig generator like that

 

[Blieb]

There are libraries for PHP that you can edit images with.

They're using php:

http://www.danasoft.com/customsig.php

The problem is that if you have a lot of hits on something like that, the resources used are mucho ...

 

[conjur]

I HATE sites that make the browser size change to fill the screen (w/o maximizing...have to resize it down.)

:|

 

[arcain]

Originally posted by: johngute
how would you make a .jpg run the cgi ?
i could see linking to a .cgi and producing a .jpg but not vice versa.

This can be done using the ForceType directive under Apache.

Example: Place in .htaccess

<Files vipersig.jpg>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>


That would cause the file "viersig.jpg" to be treated as a PHP script under Apache.

 

[vtqanh]

when i right click, save picture as, the type of the picture is .PNG ???

 

[notfred]

I could do that with Image::Magick, GD, or PIL. If you want .jpg fiels to be treated as cgi scripts, jsut set up apache that way.

 

[jfall]

when i right click, save picture as, the type of the picture is .PNG ???

.png owns!

 

[Beau]

Originally posted by: jfall

when i right click, save picture as, the type of the picture is .PNG ???

.png owns!

It's getting there. There are still some browsers that don't correctly support it.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Beau

Originally posted by: jfall

when i right click, save picture as, the type of the picture is .PNG ???

.png owns!

It's getting there. There are still some browsers that don't correctly support it.

Mainly the piece of junk that is IE 6.

It's not the fault of PNG, though. PNG is a very nice format for colormapped or RGB images.