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Old 10-26-2006, 01:00 PM THREAD STARTER               #1 (permalink)
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After I made this ultra-cool Google Gadget I got couple of other ideas, and since I've also been home from work (sick) the last couple of days I've had some extra time to spare, and here's the result of that:



It's a dynamically created image that's updated/unique for everyone who sees it.
It presents the country based on your IP, and finds your browser and operation system based on your User Agent..

If you want to display this image as your signature on other forums you can use the code below.
But beware; The image/code isn't 100% complete yet, so there may/will be changes to it!
HTML Code:
[url="http://www.spyber.com/"][IMG]http://www.spyber.com/sigimage.png[/IMG][/url]
Or if you want to display it on your site(s) you can use this code:
HTML Code:
<a href="http://www.spyber.com/"><img src="http://www.spyber.com/sigimage.png" border="0" /></a>
Don't copy and paste the image since it won't work then...
Use the code (w/the links) above instead, and don't use the image without linking to www.spyber.com.

Also created these three samples today:

Browser and Operation System


Forum BBcode:
HTML Code:
[url="http://www.spyber.com/"][IMG]http://www.spyber.com/longbrowser.png[/IMG][/url]
IP and country:
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/programming/251149-dynamic-forum-sigs-w-ip-browser.html


Forum BBcode:
HTML Code:
[url="http://www.spyber.com/"][IMG]http://www.spyber.com/longcountry.png[/IMG][/url]
Country and flag
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Forum BBcode:
HTML Code:
[url="http://www.spyber.com/"][IMG]http://www.spyber.com/longcountryflag.png[/IMG][/url]
As you (probably) can see, I'm a coder and not a graphics artist so if anyone have any suggestions to good background images I'd be more than happy to try them..
(I can also pay if someone wants to make a few good ones for me)

It's not 100% yet, so I've just made these sample for now, so if it's not reporting your OS/Browser/country correct (unless you're behind a proxy) then I would appreciate if you could PM me or post your user agent/IP here, and tell me what it displays wrong and I'll try to correct it.

There are several similar scripts out there, but this one should at least display the browser type/version more accurate than most of them since it picks the info directly from the user agent.
So if you haven't messed with that one it should (hopefully) be pretty accurate..

Next step will be to create (lots) more backgrounds to choose from, and I'll also make make a system where it will be easy to customize what info you want to display on the images, and you will also be able to choose how you want to display it (font type, color, size, text etc..)

Feedback/Comments/Suggestions are always welcome!
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Old 10-26-2006, 03:51 PM   #2 (permalink)
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How about an option so that users can use custom background images?
ex: spyber.com/custom.php?img=http://mysite.com/whatever.jpg
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Looks good, did you make the Locator, or did you get a script? (If a script, what one did you use?)
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Originally Posted by Mikor
Looks good, did you make the Locator, or did you get a script? (If a script, what one did you use?)
I've programmed everything myself, but I've used the free IP-to-Country database from webhosting.info http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/node/view/6
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Originally Posted by Jim_
How about an option so that users can use custom background images?
ex: spyber.com/custom.php?img=http://mysite.com/whatever.jpg
That's a good suggestion, and I'll also look into this when I start on the customization script.
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Been working on a script that creates custom signature images "on-the-fly",
and displays the preview using AJAX
(just soooooo Web 2.0 here.. )
http://www.spyber.com/signature.html
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=251149

Comments/Feedback/Suggestions to new text, designs, features etc. is appreciated.

And if anyone wants to earn some $$ by creating a few new background images for me,
then please check out this thread:
http://www.namepros.com/web-developm...es-wanted.html
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