Well, I was bored tonight and decided to cook this up:
http://jpez.sobertillnoon.com/chucknorris.png
As you can see, it generates an image with a random Chuck Norris fact from
4q.cc. I know I'm using it in
my signature.
hell yes! Bout time you cooked up something decent jpez
EDIT: You need to parse out html escape sequences ( '"' comes up every now and then)
*laughs* I must say, I'm impressed.
Nice job, Jon. Finally, something useful comes out of this site. :/
@kllr: Oops, I was using htmlspecialchars instead of htmlentities.
@all: Thanks for the praise.
Cool, but is there any way that you can make it randomize differently for each image on the page. For instance, right now on this page Kllrnohj and You have the same Chuck Norris Phrase. After refreshing a few times (and that staying constant) I assume that the way you have it set up, it's the same for multiple users. I doubt it, but is there any way you could somehow make it show up different for different users?
Still, it looks cool. I'd put it in my sig, but I'm usually not big on following trends...*looks at his current sig*...*shakes head*
Edit: Ahh, I guess that doesn't really make much sense...still, I'm probably just ignorant, but is there a way?
I know exactly what you mean, and I don't know if there is a way. I suspect it's a browser related thing -- once it's loaded chucknorris.png on one page, it sees no reason why it should re-request it. Perhaps if I set the expiration to 0 microseconds in the header or something like that?
jpez wrote:
I know exactly what you mean, and I don't know if there is a way. I suspect it's a browser related thing -- once it's loaded chucknorris.png on one page, it sees no reason why it should re-request it. Perhaps if I set the expiration to 0 microseconds in the header or something like that?
There's no way to fix it, really, other than faking the creation time by your php script. Hmmm, that's not a bad idea... let me find you some more info about it.
I'm pretty sure tat can be set in the headers...
Yeah, I'm relatively sure you're right about that. Go for it.
I think it is the fact that you both link to the same image. Now, if you had about 4 or 5 different images you could link to for the same script, you might get different results.
But if the browser sees that the image it just loaded has expired, it will reload it on the same page, yielding a different result.
Does that mean it will differ not only between different users, but between ever instance of it on the page? I like that idea.
Chipmaster wrote:
Does that mean it will differ not only between different users, but between ever instance of it on the page? I like that idea.
It *should* be different for every instance on the page.
^Random fact from Gullible.info^
Ok, setting the expiration date stuff didn't work. Sorry, but I just don't think there's a way it can be done.
jpez wrote:
^Random fact from Gullible.info^
Ok, setting the expiration date stuff didn't work. Sorry, but I just don't think there's a way it can be done.
You've still got the " problem... :S
Some of these sigs are good actually, especially the one with the reference to the Johnny Cash song.
Can't you just have something like this?
chuck.png (htaccess) -> random.php (redirect) -> ./chuckfolder/chuck-randomMD5hash.png (htaccess) -> quotegen.php
Then it will have loaded seperately named images, no? (while all start at chuck.png, the actual filenamed cached would be the chuck-randomMD5hash, hence the browser will reattempt to get chuck.png every time it comes across it, yielding a differently named PNG image)
Sounds logical, Captain.
