unique feature of thantos, i want it :)

[faraz_k86]

hello,


while browsing the forum i noticed that one of the developers of sms, thantos , has a very nice option: every time the page is refreshed his avatar changes, thats like a single user has a lot of avatars, is there aby way i can get this activated on my forum ??

[Gary]

Any user can have a random avatar display, provided you have the right script.

It's somewhere on these forums though I forget where...

-ALM

[SlammedDime]

* SlammedDime has that too....

[faraz_k86]

k then slammedDime plz help me out here. how'd u do it

[SlammedDime]

You'll need to create two files:
.htaccess
avatar.jpg

In .htaccess, put the following:

Code (.htaccess) Select Expand

AddType application/x-httpd-php .jpg

in avatar.jpg, put the following:

Code (avatar.jpg) Select Expand

<?php
$dp=opendir(".");
while ($file=readdir($dp)) {
if (substr($file,0,1) != "." && $file != "avatar.jpg")
$files[]=$file;
}
closedir($dp);

sort($files);

$filename=$files[rand(0,count($files)-1)];
$f = fopen($filename, "r");
$contents = fread($f, filesize($filename));
fclose($f);

header("Content-Type: image/jpeg");
print($contents);
?>

Then put those two files in a directory along with any JPEG files you want to rotate, and then navigate your browser to avatar.jpg, and you should see a randomly selected image.

[H]

I have one also although my one also has caching so I use less bandwidth