Cumulus PHP-GD Banner

[BCJKiwi]

OK have set up banner in my signature - great!

How can I place the banner on a web page of another website (not a forum) and have it link to my weather website the way it does from my siganture?

I have been able to get it to display but not to work as a hyperlink.
The closest I could get was from a right click on the banner,
or,
from a separate hyperlink to the banner

Thanks

[steve]

How can I place the banner on a web page of another website (not a forum) and have it link to my weather website the way it does from my siganture?

This ought to work:

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<a href="http://silveracorn.co.nz/weather"><img src="http://silveracorn.co.nz/weather/banner.php"/></a>

but it doesn't seem to. I suspect the .php extension for the image is confusing something.

However, if you view the source of this forum page, the forum software has generated:

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<a href="http://silveracorn.co.nz/weather" class="postlink"><img src="http://silveracorn.co.nz/weather/banner.php" alt="Image" /></a>

So I'm afraid I have no idea what's going on. Perhaps something in the forum CSS fixes it. No doubt someone clever will be along soon with an explanation.

[beteljuice]

Works for me ?
The only thing that I can see is a missing space before /> in the <img tag, although that shouldn't really make a difference.
Might be the forum protecting itself and using the 'class' to allow the call ?

For completness the link should be expanded a bit:

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<a href="http://silveracorn.co.nz/weather" target="_blank" border="0"><img src="http://silveracorn.co.nz/weather/banner.php" height="60" width="468" alt="Visit Silver Acorn Weather" title="Visit Silver Acorn Weather" /></a>

[steve]

Works for me ?

Ah - and for me, I now realise, in IE. But not in Chrome. I've probably screwed up my test page.

[BCJKiwi]

Works for me ?
The only thing that I can see is a missing space before /> in the <img tag, although that shouldn't really make a difference.
Might be the forum protecting itself and using the 'class' to allow the call ?

For completness the link should be expanded a bit:

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<a href="http://silveracorn.co.nz/weather" target="_blank" border="0"><img src="http://silveracorn.co.nz/weather/banner.php" height="60" width="468" alt="Visit Silver Acorn Weather" title="Visit Silver Acorn Weather" /></a>

@beteljuice

Thanks, your solution works perfectly!
As a beginner at this coding (but I trust learning fast) I would not have got there in ages.
- now to find a suitable image or add a coloured background.

[BCJKiwi]

The code does work perfectly but I noticed it produced a hyperlink coloured border around the banner.

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<a href="http://silveracorn.co.nz/weather" target="_blank" border="0"><img src="http://silveracorn.co.nz/weather/banner.php" height="60" width="468" alt="Visit Silver Acorn Weather" title="Visit Silver Acorn Weather" /></a>

So I added border="0" but still got a dotted line around the banner.
So then (having looked at the examples provided by w3schools.com) noticed that they included <p> </p> tags outside the <a> </a> tags.
so the final code is;

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<p><a href="http://silveracorn.co.nz/weather" target="_blank" border="0"><img border="0" src="http://silveracorn.co.nz/weather/banner.php" height="60" width="468" alt="Visit Silver Acorn Weather" title="Visit Silver Acorn Weather" /></a><p>

Thanks again.

[Mark14]

I have a problem with my banner because today disappeared.
The banner is located on a server of my website with all my scripts for weather station - http://pogodaslesin.cba.pl/
However, I showed my banner on a different webpage - http://gminaslesin.hostpark.pl/ through the script:

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<a href='http://pogodaslesin.cba.pl/'><img src='http://pogodaslesin.cba.pl/banner.php' width='468' height='60' /></a>

.
Today it turned out that the server where there is a banner.php file forbids hotlinking. So I wanted to place banner.php to the server where I want to show it but when I wrote:

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$SITE['version']        = "3.0";
$SITE['hloc']           = "http://pogodaslesin.cba.pl/";
$SITE['datafile']       = "realtime.txt";
$SITE['image_width']    = 468;
$SITE['image_height']   = 60;
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
$SITE['fontdir']        = "http://pogodaslesin.cba.pl/fonts/";     # must contain ttf font files!
$SITE['usettf']         = "yes";        # Set to No to use default fonts

I got the message that the image can't be displayed because there are some errors. It is possible to have banner.php on the another page then realtime.txt file?

[beteljuice]

It seems that when you edited the file you saved it in a different format (something that seems to becoming more and more of a problem recently for some reason).

eg. http://pogodaslesin.cba.pl/banner.php (working)

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$months = array ("Styczeñ","Luty","Marzec","Kwiecieñ","Maj","Czerwiec","Lipiec","Sierpieñ",
    "Wrzesieñ","Pazdziernik","Listopad","Grudzieñ");

http://gminaslesin.hostpark.pl/banner.php (NOT working)

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$months = array ("Stycze�","Luty","Marzec","Kwiecie�","Maj","Czerwiec","Lipiec","Sierpie�",
    "Wrzesie�","Pazdziernik","Listopad","Grudzie�");

(further down the degree symbol is also �)

[Mapantz]

Hi guys.

Great banner script!
I've belonged to a weather forum for 6 years and recently it had it's overdue update which allows many many new options. I was going to use my banner in my signature (Like here) but the software doesn't allow .php to be used as a picture extension, is there any ways around it?

Regards.

[beteljuice]

You need to go back a few pages and read this: https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.p ... &start=195

[Mapantz]

You need to go back a few pages and read this: https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.p ... &start=195

Thank you! Works perfectly.

[TNETWeather]

Hi guys.

Great banner script!
I've belonged to a weather forum for 6 years and recently it had it's overdue update which allows many many new options. I was going to use my banner in my signature (Like here) but the software doesn't allow .php to be used as a picture extension, is there any ways around it?

Regards.

Yep... if you have access to mod_rewrite on your website, you can "fake" an image and have it point to your PHP script.

Some examples:

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RewriteRule ^/?banner.png$ /banner.php [L]
RewriteRule ^/?banner2.png$ /banner2.php [L]
RewriteRule ^/?banner3.png$ /banner3.php [L]
RewriteRule ^/?avatar.png$ /avatar.php [L]
RewriteRule ^/?therm.png$ /graph/therm.php [L]

In each case, the first part is the "fake" png file I want to use on websites and the second part is which php script it should call.

This way you can reference your PHP graphic like:

http://cumulus.tnetweather.com/banner2.png

... and it will actually (in this example) use the PHP script called banner3.php which is:

[Mark14]

I would like to add a weather icon to my banner. It should reffer to the current weather situation, so the icon should show the weather from METAR report, eg. sun, rain as in the weather widgets. Is it possible?

[beteljuice]

In a word YES

... but very awkward.
This script has been striped down from the Anole wxsticker http://scripts.anolecomputer.com/download.shtml

You would need to isolate the METAR grab part and stitch it back in to the Cumulus version.

[mcrossley]

How about having a selection of full size background images for the banner which incorporate the icons and selecting the appropriate image based on the conditions?