Question - Is it possible to put an image as a username?

[Gucci Mane]

Is it possible to put an image as a a username?

[reek13]

Yes . just go to the staff panel then go to edit users and put the image url as the username , and the image should come up as the name . I once did this a couple months ago so tell me if it works

[Gucci Mane]

I got it but reek13 thats not the way but ty for trying to help.

all is love,

TSMW

[Taxed]

why would you want to put an image as a username in the first place?

[Gucci Mane]

A small custom made .png heres and ex of my game with that name[attach]1369[/attach]

[mdshare]

You can also use the GD Lib to create a img for the username

example

 

<?
// MakeWebGames.com :: Example of using the GD Library to change txt to img
header("Content-type: image/gif");
if(!$_GET['len']) $_GET['len']=100;
if(!$_GET['height']) $_GET['height']=40;
if(!$_GET['size']) $_GET['size']=20;
if(!$_GET['hline']) $_GET['hline']=$_GET['height']/2;
$image=imagecreate($_GET['len'],$_GET['height']);
$bg_colour = imagecolorallocate($image, 230, 230, 230);
$txt_colour = imagecolorallocate($image, 0x5F, 0x27, 0x25);
$trans=imagecolortransparent ($image ,$bg_colour);
imageantialias ($image,off);
imagettftext($image,$_GET['size'],0,0,$_GET['hline'],$txt_colour,'dearJoe_4_trial.otf',$_GET['string']);

imagegif($image);
imagedestroy($image);
?>

 

as attachment the OTF and a example GIF created with the above

[Danny696]

Nice Md, How would you use that in the sctipt itself?

[mdshare]

I wouldn't use it in the game script itself as it uses CPU power as memory from the server

What I would do is having at the signup create the username as gif and fwrite it to a file eg to /user/{username}.gif

ingame you simply call the username as a img src then

example of creating a img without proxying it to a browser

 

<?php
// Create a test source image for this example
$im = imagecreatetruecolor(300, 50);
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 233, 14, 91);
imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5,  'A Simple Text String', $text_color);

// start buffering
ob_start();
// output jpeg (or any other chosen) format & quality
imagejpeg($im, NULL, 85);
// capture output to string
$contents = ob_get_contents();
// end capture
ob_end_clean();

// be tidy; free up memory
imagedestroy($im);

// lastly (for the example) we are writing the string to a file
$fh = fopen("./temp/img.jpg", "a+" );
   fwrite( $fh, $contents );
fclose( $fh );
?> 

[Gucci Mane]

what I did was make the image.

Upload to cpanel

then edit user

and for there username I put

<img scr=filename.png>

where it says file name, change that to w/e the image you uploaded to your cpanels name

ex. you make a image upload to cpanel as testimg.png you would put <img scr=testimg.png> in the users username

[mdshare]

that woks also , but what if 1000 players want's to have a img as username ....

I was looking into a method for you how to auto generate a gif/jpg for the members and have it displayed as gif instead of a txt username (without going to edit the username field)

[Nickson]

@ThaSkiMaskWay: Yes your way of doing this works fine, however imagine yourself making about a few thousands, if not a million, username images just because a user changes his name? It can all work fine, however this isn't automated, you have to spend time doing it (even though, adding a new layer with a username doesn't take long, you still have to upload it, and edit a users settings).

What mdshare did here, is post the base of a script that would automate this process. This means that you wouldn't need to spend creating a new image each time a user changes his or her nickname - which can be a real pain if you have quite a userbase! Therefore automating this event, would give you more time to spend on other things, while users get there images quite instantly, with the possibility of adding extra options to the script. They're happy, you are probably happy too. And once it's made, you actually don't have to look at it anymore - unless you want to change the base image - which takes up a little bit of time and you're good again.

But keep in mind that having such a script comes with a price! It isn't a php version of photoshop, and it's quite heavy on resources, yet this can have quite a lot of possibilities.

I hope this can clear up some extra things.

[Gucci Mane]

well...thats the point

its a donator item, say 50 bucks for it and every change after you have 1 apllied is for say 20 bucks

[Uridium]

Ive been working with GD LIB recently on another mod and found that for MCCODES it has a large potential for some great mods.

[Gucci Mane]

wot ya mean bro?