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Don't change anything in the script on the first post. Looks like you tried to add in some URLs of images somewhere else. It doesn't work that way. Hm.. you also put that in something called avy.php instead of in index.php in a folder ending in an image extension. Go back and read the directions more closely. Just take it easy, one step at a time.

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Heres what I did:
Made a folder called Avy.php
Put in the code
Changed the "image" in "image/gif" to my URL
Changed .php to .png (it was a text file, ripway doesn't host folders that I know of)
Tried
Got:
The image “http://h1.ripway.com/Dacheet15/Avy.png” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

I don't understand the directions and I can't do scripting.
Why?
I'm 11.

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There's no need to do any scripting. The script in the first post is all you need, and you don't need to change anything in it.

*The folder should end in .png (or some other image extension) --this is part of what tricks the browser into displaying an image when it's really looking at a script in a folder
*The code should go in the folder in a file called index.php
*Nothing should change in the script
*The images you want to rotate should go inside Avy.png folder alongside index.php. The script is looking for them there.

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I Don't get you.

I can't do it. Forget it.

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Here, if you want, PM me the images you want to rotate and I can do it.


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Nah, nah, I just typed this stuff up so he can learn things. He can do this. He made the account and uploaded some stuff to an image host, so he can do this too if he gets some easier instructions.

dacheet15 wrote:
I Don't get you.

I can't do it. Forget it.

/emocry

Yeah, it's kinda hard if you're not yet solid on basic computer vocab.

But you have a ripway account at least, so that's a good start.

I was trying to keep the number of steps down in the first post, especially since I wanted them to work for more than just ripway. But here's some instructions for ripway:

0. Make an account on ripway (you did this already) and log in.
1. Go to "My Files"
2. In the box next to "Create Subfolder" type Avy.png then click "Create Subfolder"
3. Click on the link to that folder you just made in the file listing
4. Click "Create Text File"
5. Enter index.php as the filename, and copy the script from my first post in this thread into the big Text box. Don't change anything. Click "Save File"
6. Click "Up to Parent Folder" to return to the main folder
7. Click "Upload Files"
7a. If the images you want to rotate aren't on your computer, open a new tab in your browser download them to your desktop first.
8. For each image file you want to upload, click a new "Browse" button to select it on your computer. Click "Upload" when you're finished or you've selected the maximum of six.
9. After it's finished uploading, click "Click here to continue!" to go back to your main folder.
9a. If you have more files, repeat steps 7, 8, and 9.
10. The image files you uploaded are now in the main file list. Click the check boxes next to all of them. Look at the bottom of the page where it says "Move Files To": choose Avy.png from the drop down box and then click "Move Files To" (This is necessary because ripway doesn't let you upload anything directly into Avy.png. You have to upload it to the main folder and then move it)
11. Then, back here on this forum, you put the URL of the folder in the Link to Offsite Avatar box in your Profile.

Even at 11, you can do this. Just take it slow and follow each instruction literally, one at a time, without trying to second guess them or read too much into them. If you hit a snag on a specific step, ask again! :)

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Also, make sure that the "/" isn't at the end of the URL when you put it in your profile here at the forum or wherever you are using it.


This stumped me for a while when I made my first rotator... :(


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Okay. I've followed the instructions to a T... and it still won't work for me!

I'm frustrated and depressed.


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Well, what's happening when you try it?

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[s]When I put the URL of the folder in the Link to Offsite Avatar box in my Profile, I get a message that says "The file at the URL you gave contains no data".[/s]

DISREGARD THAT I FIGURED IT OUT.

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sorry to bring this old thread up again, but i got my rotating sig working and was wondering if there was a way to include a quote along with the pictures. like, sometimes my sig would be a quote, sometimes a picture.


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 Post subject: Re: Rotating Sigs and Avatars
PostPosted: Wed May 28, 2008 6:34 pm 
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There is probably some way to do it using some PHP programming method or something, but otherwise, I don't think that there is a way to make that work out.

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meh. oh, well. i'm just glad i fianlly got my rotating sig working.


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 Post subject: Re: Rotating Sigs and Avatars
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You could just put the quote into a transparent picture and put that picture into the rotation.

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 Post subject: Re: Rotating Sigs and Avatars
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DS_Kid wrote:
There is probably some way to do it using some PHP programming method or something, but otherwise, I don't think that there is a way to make that work out.
Well, Mike and I were talking about that once, and you COULD have the script log into your user control panel and change your sig every once in a while. It might be fun to pull off, but I never wanted it badly enough to try it.

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 Post subject: Re: Rotating Sigs and Avatars
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Is there a way to make the sig and avatar synch up?

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I don't think that it's possible regularly. Of course, once again, there is probably some PHP script that allows that to work out.

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Phlip has (had?) sigs and avatars that sync up. Not sure how he did it, but the easiest way I can think of is to have an equal number of files in the sig and avatar folders, ordered with numbers or something so that they match up, and then use a script that chooses which file to pick based on what the current second or fraction of a second of time it is. Actually, the script at the beginning of this thread uses time to pick which image to display, so it might work....

OK so do that: have the same number of sigs and avatars in their respective folders, numbered with matching numbers, and use this script. See if that works. If it doesn't work, it might be that the "time()" in the script (in the line $imageNumber = time() & count($fileList);) is returning too precise a time (so that the miniscule fraction of a second between the time it looks for a sig and looks for an avatar changes which one it's looking for), in which case you would change that to something that returns only the current second or tenth of a second. But I don't know how to do that :O

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^First way doesn't work.

EDIT (2): Yeah, it won't work.

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 Post subject: Re: Rotating Sigs and Avatars
PostPosted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 9:43 pm 
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It works, when i reload, it goes from 2 to three on both.

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 Post subject: Re: Rotating Sigs and Avatars
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Must've got lucky. I just got a 3/2.

Also, actually took the time to look it up on the interwebs, and apparently time() IS returning seconds, not fractions of a second. So we need something slightly... bigger than a second :S

Maybe some totally inelegant mathematical fudging involving a modulo. Something like ((time() % 10) /2) to replace plain ol' time()... something to make it a 2 second window instead of 1 second. [Note: my brain is way too addled right now with 12-hour-drive preparations to double check this to see if the math is legit -- and in any case, there has to be a better way]

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 Post subject: Re: Rotating Sigs and Avatars
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It works for me about two-thirds of the time.

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It works for me most of the time, too. More than it would if it were a random rotator. But it's not perfect, sometimes it screws up.

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 Post subject: Re: Rotating Sigs and Avatars
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Maybe it's just a chance thing. There's only the numbers 1-3.

Gimme a few minutes to expand it.

EDIT: Yeah, it's now 1-7 and I'm getting matches maybe 15-20% of the time.

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I get 30% of the time.

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Yeah, the browser can't send the requests at the exact same time, and often times it is more than a second off.

What you could try is make the first php image choose randomly, then set a cookie for which one it used, then have the second php image read the cookie and choose the matching one. I think it would work, but you might have to do a hard refresh to get the second one to update every time.

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 Post subject: Re: Rotating Sigs and Avatars
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You could have a text file with the information in it. The first script that runs creates the text file and dumps the information in it, the second script that runs would take the information out of it and destroy the file. So if a script sees no file, it thinks for itself and then makes the file.

I don't think you'd need a hard refresh if you took the cookie path. Just make sure you destroy the cookie when the second script runs.


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 Post subject: Re: Rotating Sigs and Avatars
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Are you using any image types that aren't supported?


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I see all PNG's and GIF's in there... Well, all the images are 100 x 73, right? If you set the dimensions to 100 x 73 in your profile, it won't try and find the size and it will work. Another thing you can do is put a regular image in its place (upload something to http://h1.ripway.com/LASAR/av.png), set it to your avatar, and then replace it with the real av.png folder. Then I think the system wouldn't notice the change, and it would work no matter what.
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I don't think you'd need a hard refresh if you took the cookie path. Just make sure you destroy the cookie when the second script runs.
Oh, good point...

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