Check out my image generator

[EPJS]

I just created it yesterday :)

http://dig.knight47.com


Yeah I know the layout sucks :p It's only a day old and I was more concerned with getting the code right than I was the layout :D I'll get a better layout later.

Just tell me what you think of the generator itself.

[piersk]

1 suggestion... from the links that are generated, it seems that every image you are generating is being stored on your web server. The image I generated was about 5.5 k. So if 1000 are generated (wouldn't be to hard to write a script to post to your site and post different variables) thats 5.5MB. 1 million and thats 5 GB worth of images created. Wouldn't it be worth creating an image, pushing it to the browser and then destroying it?

[scrupul0us]

i agree

[EPJS]

1 suggestion... from the links that are generated, it seems that every image you are generating is being stored on your web server. The image I generated was about 5.5 k. So if 1000 are generated (wouldn't be to hard to write a script to post to your site and post different variables) thats 5.5MB. 1 million and thats 5 GB worth of images created. Wouldn't it be worth creating an image, pushing it to the browser and then destroying it?
I guess I did my job then if you believe it "creates" new images :D (that's the illusion I was trying to present).

It's actually just ONE image.

dig.knight47.com/a-1-1-1950.png

Change the parts in bold to any numbers you want (month-date-year, the letter is your background image - currently only A or B) and you'll see. The date is added dynamically on one single image, never is there more than one image stores on the site. So technically it doesn't "create" anything :p

Edit: I'm adding extra backgrounds so you have a choice of which to use :)

[dougal85]

It's actually just ONE image.

Which is exactly how it keeps up to date ;)

but i believe i did find a fault :p haha, sorry...

if you select a future date, ie. 9/9/2007 you get a negative year ;) but it should really be just 0 i guess.

Also, it would be nice to have a count down aswell as a count up.

ie, put a future date and it says x year, x months, x days to go

[EPJS]

V_V

Thanks for finding that bug, I'll look into fixing it later today :)

[Bunkermaster]

http://dig.knight47.com/a-1950-1950-1950.png
Inresting resuts

http://dig.knight47.com/a-1950-a-1950.png
if no date works, return a "oops" image?

http://dig.knight47.com/a--1-0-0.png
kaboom?

funny idea, I don't see many women using it though (generally gets stuck to 29 and a few months).

[EPJS]

http://dig.knight47.com/a-1950-1950-1950.png
Inresting resuts

http://dig.knight47.com/a-1950-a-1950.png
if no date works, return a "oops" image?

http://dig.knight47.com/a--1-0-0.png
kaboom?

funny idea, I don't see many women using it though (generally gets stuck to 29 and a few months).

Well it's more of less intended for those that wouldn't think to "hack the system" by using custom numbers, so I'm not too worried about those :p
It's mostly intended for people with little-to-no internet experience to use, such as those on Myspace and similar "networking" websites.

[Weedpacket]

Right, because there aren't any script kiddies on MySpace ;)

[dougal85]

lol, remember that guy that used the XMLHTTPObject to mess up myspace... it didnt do any serious harm (just added everybody to his contact list i think) and he's going to prision for 6 years or something

[EPJS]

Right, because there aren't any script kiddies on MySpace ;)
True, but the "target audience" wouldn't mess with it. And even if someone does, there's nothing in the code that could be "harmful" if messed with. They'd just get a bad/broken image. :D

Btw, I'm still working on a fix for that bug, I'm just really slow at getting around to doing stuff :p