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[leke]

A few of us are using sloganizer in our sig (check out mine)

I've just coded (ok just finishing) my own version which will change the image every time the page (a python script) is called. I can't figure out how sloganizer knows how to change the users slogan image each time it is requested in the sig?

Any ideas?
Thanks.
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I codes here: http://notsure.tk

[ollie]

Sloganizer uses a PHP script to connect to the Sloganizer server and write the slogan.

[leke]

I'm not sure if I understand about what you said there, but that's ok, I'm pretty dumb.
The sig url in this forum is http://www.sloganizer.net/en/image,not-spc-sure,white,black.png which fetches the image. I been investigating though and I think those comma seperated strings are values passed to the script that looks like a .png image, but is in fact, a script (for example, php). I hear you can add something to the web server that passes whatever extension you want to run like it was a script. I guess you can return some kind of image stream back as the file request.

Some links about it:
http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2004/10/19/gifs-that-execute-a-php-script/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/198606/can-i-use-commas-in-a-url

The other thing I can think of is that it's just a cron job executing the script every 15secs or so
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[ollie]

OK, Sloganizer.net use a BBCode style URL to call the PNG image file:

[leke]