Sig Programming help

Citizen_Erased

I dont know much about programing (in fact probably nothing) but I was wondering could someone help me with something.
It is about programming the signature (ie the pic below) so that it randomly displays and image from a choice of a couple of different ones. Is this possible?

Capt'n Midnight

Is it possible - Yes

Are animated sigs allowed - NO!

Citizen_Erased

Yeah I know but thats not what I mean. What I mean is just for it to chose one of the sigs and just show it like a normal sig but say the next time the thing loads it'll show a differant one of the sigs

Capt'n Midnight

In that case you point it at a website that uses several images with the same name or generates one when you connect. The programming isn't done on the sig but on the site.

If the war on terror hots up Bert will be replaced by Ernie !

Citizen_Erased

Ah , could you explain how I might set up such an arrangement. If a couple of files have the same name wont it still stick with one anyways?

Capt'n Midnight

you put code on the site to cycle through the files.
only one is there is there at a time.

Citizen_Erased

You appear to have mistaken me for someone who has intelligence. Can I do it through my boards.ie hosting? What kinda code cause I'm a tard so you may have to explain.

SolarNexus

This thread really has dragged on much longer than it should have, Capt'n Midnight I really dont understand your thinking which brought you to drag this thing on so long, but lets see if I can help somewhat:

you need a website server which can process a server-side language such as PHP, JSP or ASP. You then upload your images and a script which will choose an image at random; you use this script as the image URL, which is odd I know but thats how it works.

you'll be hard pressed to find a free php webserver, or any server-side script allowing free server, but regardless of which, this is the script:

[PHP]<?php
// settings //
$imgCount = "2"; // the number of images you'll use
$imgPath = "images/rand/"; // the location of the images
$imgPrefix = "rand_"; // image name prefix (eg: images will be called "rand_0.jpg" etc.
$imgType = "jpg"; // image type
$errorImg = "error"; // image to show if cant show random images


// functionality //
$imgURL = $imgPath . $imgPrefix . mt_rand( 0 , $imgCount ) . "." . $imgType; // define the image path

// browser config
Header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
Header("Content-Type: image/" . $imgType);

// show the image
if(!readfile($imgURL))
readfile($errorImg); // If the script can't find the images, display this image instead
?>[/php]

Citizen_Erased

Okay cheers , Ill try a few things and see how I get along