Nice!!!

[CKnight]

What could be sweeter than dynamic image generation? Maybe dynamic flash generation but who's really checking?

[Ropy]

Nice indeed, but it can be even nicer if you share the source code. ;D

[owen]

itunes for windows ;D. who needs dynamic flash generation anyway?

[tech_guru]

Ropy check out http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/000918.php

[CKnight]

Actually tech, it's not a rondom image, it's a dynamically generated image.

PHP has the ability to output streams other than text hence the ability to output binary data such as images and flash animation. This trick is accomplished by creating a PHP script that outputs an image and then using that script file as the image itself within HTML tags (or YaBB tags as the case may be) in the format <IMG SRC="image.php">.

The code used to generate the image I'm now using is below:

<?
$RF = "oneliners.txt";
if (file_exists($RF))
{
   $fp = fopen($RF, "r");
   $index = 0;
   while (!feof ($fp)) 
   {
      $lines[$index++] = fgets($fp, 4096);
   }
   fclose($fp);
}

header ("Content-type: image/png");
$im = @ImageCreate (500, 30) or die ("No GD image support");
$background_color = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 255, 255, 255);
$text_color = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 233, 14, 91);

srand ((double) microtime() * 10000000);

$rand_line = array_rand ($lines, 1);

$String = $lines[$rand_line];
ImageString ($im, 2, 5, 5,  $String, $text_color);
ImagePng ($im);
?>

All you need do after this is have a file called "onliners.txt" in the same directory, place it on a server with PHP and GD support and place the file name in your image tag as shown above.



-Life needs...Openess

[CKnight]

As you can imagine, this ability allows you to do some VERY interesting things:

[tech_guru]

[me=Tech_Guru]Says "CKnight I'm Gonna Kick you in da Nuts"[/me]

[Ropy]

[quote author=CKnight link=board=22;threadid=2146;start=0#msg21149 date=1066933950]
As you can imagine, this ability allows you to do some VERY interesting things:



[/quote]

It seems as if CK is harvesting IP's... What interesting things are you referring to?

[Arch_Angel]

You can also do this in ASP.NET. You can draw on an image using asp code. Won't post any code since this is a php forum.