php love'en? I need alittle =P

[Zaphieon]

ok been trying to get my images to do different things.. cant seem to get a string to embed in it properly. can get it to call the names and titles.. but trying to add something like "name: " + $name doesnt work for crap =( so anyone wanna give me a hand that is familiar with php??

[mordero]

Google is your friend.

And so is using the correct forums: Script Languages - RunUO - Ultima Online Emulation

[Zaphieon]

actually thought i posted there. =P if you dont have any help other then "google is your friend" then please stfu lol.. google is always my first resort to 99% of anything.. even looking up a number instead of using the phone book.. google is godsend I swear.. but no frets i am still roaming through countless websites learning yet another scripting language.. but having found the answer yet.. found a ton of other things.

[mordero]

Well if you want help, then you will need to actually describe the problem better than that. And I provided great help:
1. use google
2. use the correct forum

[J MaNN]

Originally Posted by Zaphieon

if you dont have any help other then "google is your friend" then please stfu lol..

Probably why no one else has offered any help. I don't think there is any respect for you around here.

[Arkad]

Zaphieon - realize that asking for help here is like walking into a homeless camp full of drunks and asking for help on your calculus homework.

[bzk90]

Originally Posted by mordero

Well if you want help, then you will need to actually describe the problem better than that. And I provided great help:
1. use google
2. use the correct forum

you should have used google to find the 10+ posts created by the runuo higher ups telling people not to respond to threads with posts like "use google"

[Zaphieon]

Originally Posted by Arkad

Zaphieon - realize that asking for help here is like walking into a homeless camp full of drunks and asking for help on your calculus homework.

LOL.. thats beautifully said.. I didnt mean to post in here.. i meant to hit the programming section.. but oh well. it should turn out to be a beautiful thread lol..


Mordero oh i wasnt arguing bud.. =P i was teasing.. though i meant to post in the other thread.. and i did google already..

what i am trying to do is add text into the image. if you have a tutorial on this be great.. atm the way i am adding the strings its very limited what i can do...

[anybody]

You might have better luck if you went and got help from a site that deals specifically with php.

[Rosetta]

Originally Posted by Arkad

Zaphieon - realize that asking for help here is like walking into a homeless camp full of drunks and asking for help on your calculus homework.

lmao ok that is just funny =]

[mordero]

Originally Posted by bzk90

you should have used google to find the 10+ posts created by the runuo higher ups telling people not to respond to threads with posts like "use google"

I didnt just say use google, I said "Google is your friend" and I also pointed out that using the correct forum to ask questions would prolly be a good idea.

Originally Posted by Arkad

Zaphieon - realize that asking for help here is like walking into a homeless camp full of drunks and asking for help on your calculus homework.

Calculus is fun

[mordero]

These might help:

Dynamic Image Generation with PHP
Adding Custom Text to an Image Using PHP
How to add text to images > Template-Help.com
http://www.alistapart.com/d/dynatext/heading.php.txt

The google search:
php add text to image - Google Search

PHP related sites that might have tutorials:
PHP Help, PHP Code - Codewalkers.com
The PHP Resource Index
PHPBuilder.com, the best resource for PHP tutorials, templates, PHP manuals, content management systems, scripts, classes and more.
Programming Help, Web Design Help, CSS Help - Dev Articles
Oxyscripts - PHP Development, tutorials, articles, news, programming, scripts and forums.

[Vorspire]

You know i already have this working fully, php is a fun and very simple, easy language to learn...

BTW, Zaphieon, you generated image is over 100kb, which is really bad...



To put synamic PHP scriings together, instead of the generic C# '+' char modifyer, use a full-stop '.' char to joion strings.

$string = 'Name: '. $name;

Any variable encased in double-quotes does not need any special treatment:

$string = " Name: $name ";

[Zaphieon]

Originally Posted by Vorspire

You know i already have this working fully, php is a fun and very simple, easy language to learn...

BTW, Zaphieon, you generated image is over 100kb, which is really bad...



To put synamic PHP scriings together, instead of the generic C# '+' char modifyer, use a full-stop '.' char to joion strings.

$string = 'Name: '. $name;

Any variable encased in double-quotes does not need any special treatment:

$string = " Name: $name ";

yes it seems to be very enjoyable so far.. learning all sorts of fun little things.. thanks for the method there.. so simple i overlooked it =( - the size of that image is easily reduced, just playing with it atm.

[Vorspire]

Originally Posted by Zaphieon

yes it seems to be very enjoyable so far.. learning all sorts of fun little things.. thanks for the method there.. so simple i overlooked it =( - the size of that image is easily reduced, just playing with it atm.

Yeah, it's a bitch to keep quality and keep the image small in size.. I really recommend working with PNG-only when doing php image generation and rendering :P

PHP is not dissimilar to C# in a lot of ways, but differentiates to C# in the aspect of Object Orientation. PHP is incapable of storing scripts in memory, thus you only get one output per page and without using Sessions, it is nearly impossible to pass references to seperate scripts.

If you write your PHP classes as if you were writing a C# class (same sort of structure), then you'll pick it up easily.

The main differences are, when accessing a class or method (PHP-specific Methods are called Functions)
(if the method exists in the same class as you wish to call it from, you must still use "this" accessor):

PHP:

$this->Function();

C#:

this.Method();

or when declaring a variable:

PHP:

var $variable;

C#:

object m_variable;

(Every PHP object is known as a 'var' - similar to JavaScript)

You can, but don't have to do any type-casting with PHP, because the PHP parser is smart enough to know the difference between and integer and a string :P

Anything alse you want to learn, just ask.

-Just out of curiosity, did you pick up my Paperdoll Script from that other thread for your base? If so, i will be able to offer more support on it

[Jeff]

"name:'.$name

[TMSTKSBK]

"name:'.$name


nooooooooo. Your quotes are fubar'd.

[Zaphieon]

no i was digging through an old harddrive with my last server on it.. found old from zulu's days.

though i could grab that and play with it as well.. fairly good are reverse engineering scripts.

now about image sizes.. my orginal black image is abotu the same size as yours atm.. and I plan on sizing them both down when i get back to the house. going to attempt to design a few more that if i can figure it out, to switch according to the players status. Choas, Order, PK, AntiPK(( anti pk get auto antipk counts for killing pks with 10 or more murder counts, have there own hue name and so on.)), Nuetral

[Zaphieon]

well I added a bit more to it.. but cant seem to get the info to print correctly.

connects to sql

$link = sql_connect();
$result = sql_query($link, "SELECT char_name,char_female,char_bodyhue,char_str,char_dex,char_int FROM myrunuo_characters WHERE char_id=$id");
if (!(list($nametitle,$charfemale,$charbodyhue,$cstr,$cdex,$cint) = mysql_fetch_row($result)))
  die();
mysql_free_result($result);

and heres where it prints the text.

function AddText(&$img, $name, $title)
{
	//$font_size = 56 ;
	$textcolor = imagecolorallocate($img, 255, 255, 255);
	$pos = (int) (55 - (strlen($name)));
	if ($pos < 0)
	  $pos = 0;
  imagestring($img, 1, $pos, 264, $name, $textcolor); //Name
  
	$pos = (int) (55 - (strlen($title)));
	if ($pos < 0)
	  $pos = 0; 
  imagestring($img, .5, $pos, 276, $title, $textcolor); //Title
  

  imagestring($img, .5, 155, 264, 'Str: '.$cstr, $textcolor); // str
  
  imagestring($img, .5, 155, 271, 'Dex: '.$cdex, $textcolor); // dex

  imagestring($img, .5, 155, 278, 'Int: '.$cint, $textcolor); // int

}

but its not printing the values for str, dex, int.

[Vorspire]

TMS is right, if you're going to open a string variable with double-quotes, you have to close it with double quotes, same for single quote. double-quoting strings make the string variable more solid, all characters are literals and $var values are parsed without quotations

[PerfectWing]

It's been a very, very long time since I've dealt with any PHP and I was certainly never exceptional at it. But, some points I picked out that may or may not be correct and could be checked again would be that:

I noticed you don't pass the variables ($cstr, $cdex, $cint) into the function that handles the paperdoll text printing. (This might not be necessary)

I noticed you don't access them through the list you put them in such as maybe ($listname[$cstr].. so forth and so on) and I was wondering if maybe that's the cause.

Just a couple shots in the dark.

[b0b01]

You probably don't have globalvars on which is a good thing.

In your function you pass the image the name and the title, but inside the function there is no variable defined with the names $cstr, $cdex or $cint, thus these variables are null, and a null string is nothing.

Also single quotes aren't made with single quotes (') but with double quotes (")

  imagestring($img, .5, 155, 264, 'Str: '.$cstr, $textcolor); // str

should be

  imagestring($img, .5, 155, 264, "Str: ".$cstr, $textcolor); // str

[Zaphieon]

ahh figured it out.. overlooked a small addtext insert higher in the code.

[Arkad]

Thats sweet how do you do them magic tricks?