Show username in image?
 

I remember a while back seeing some people on this forum with an image in their signature that show your username in them.

How can I make something like this? :thumbsup

few lines of php use ImageMagick or gd to do the image overlay on the fly. :2 cents:

yeah php can do the work anyways you can search google for "create an image from text" and get a site that does this for you :)

To show other people's usernames you'll need to imbed a php script into your signature. Then when you have posted into a thread, you'll get hits from various people. If you watch the referrers you can figure out the referrer of when someone posts to your thread.

So what you do, is when the image is loaded, you check for that unique referrer type, then load the post with a script, and extract the username from it. Then store the username with the IP.

Then when the embedded script gets loaded, check the ip against your database of nicknames, and use something like ImageMagick or GD to print out the username.

*hint: This is also an easy way to compare IPs to nicknames and see what fake nicknames people are using.

Sounds like a lot of work for little gain.

Does anyone have anything like this already made and willing to sell me a copy?