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ivestfold · Post by **ivestfold** » Sat 14 Mar 2009 4:39 pm

Hi guys.
Being really new (actually totally green!) to php, I have a couple of questions.
In the banner supplied by TNET (Cumulus PHP-GD Banner), I have to specify the directory for the fonts. I've made a font folder and uploaded it to my weather directory on the server containing the proper fonts, where the rest of my files are( banner.php and realtime.txt). How should I specify the path for the font directory in the script. By default it's ./. It obviously needs some editing, 'couse if I change usetff to yes, I get a lot of rubbish instead of the nice little banner.
Next question. How do I put the script into a .html page.? Could I just copy it inside the <body></body> tag, or do I need to take care of something else?

Newbie regards

Ingve

aadal · Post by **aadal** » Sat 14 Mar 2009 5:52 pm

ivestfold wrote:Hi guys.
Being really new (actually totally green!) to php, I have a couple of questions.
In the banner supplied by TNET (Cumulus PHP-GD Banner), I have to specify the directory for the fonts. I've made a font folder and uploaded it to my weather directory on the server containing the proper fonts, where the rest of my files are( banner.php and realtime.txt). How should I specify the path for the font directory in the script. By default it's ./. It obviously needs some editing, 'couse if I change usetff to yes, I get a lot of rubbish instead of the nice little banner.
Next question. How do I put the script into a .html page.? Could I just copy it inside the <body></body> tag, or do I need to take care of something else?

Newbie regards

Ingve

Hi Ingve
Here is mine banner.php, may get an clue here.

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$SITE['version']        = "3.0";
$SITE['hloc']           = "./";
$SITE['datafile']       = "realtime.txt";
$SITE['image_width']    = 468;
$SITE['image_height']   = 60;
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
$SITE['fontdir']        = "/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/aadal.org/httpdocs/weather/jpgraph/fonts/";     # must contain ttf font files!
$SITE['usettf']         = "yes";        # Set to No to use default fonts
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
$SITE['format']         = "png";        # Options: jpeg  gif  png 
$SITE['dateiso']        = "no";
$SITE['sitename']       = "Norway Skodje";

To find $SITE['fontdir'] use CheckServer.php
To put the script into a page the link to banner.php
Hope some help

And signature with link to your page like thise.

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[url=http://www.aadal.org/weather/][img]http://www.aadal.org/weather/banner.php[/img][/url]

beteljuice · Post by **beteljuice** » Sat 14 Mar 2009 7:13 pm

Those are 'shortcuts', ie. relative to the location of the calling file.
/ = server (user) root directory
./ = current directory
../ = directory ABOVE current directory
../../ = TWO directories ABOVE current directory (NOT recommended - gets confusing !)
mydirectory/ = a directory called my 'mydirectory' below / within the current directory.

Confused - you will be

aadal · Post by **aadal** » Sat 14 Mar 2009 7:33 pm

beteljuice wrote:Those are 'shortcuts', ie. relative to the location of the calling file.
/ = server (user) root directory
./ = current directory
../ = directory ABOVE current directory
mydirectory/ = a directory called my 'mydirectory' below / within the current directory.

Confused - you will be

Hmm thax for the information on that.

ivestfold · Post by **ivestfold** » Sat 14 Mar 2009 8:02 pm

Poor guys that replied to my request.. There's gonna be a lot more questions..

So... my "fonts" folder which is located within the directory where I have my files should have the following path: fonts/
Right?
And Aadal, howhcome your script is a few centimeters long, while the downloaded one from TNET are 2 kilometers long?
And should'nt the script start with <?php and end with ?>. Or is that so elementary that you skipped it?

Thanks Aadal and Beteljuice

BR Ingve

ivestfold · Post by **ivestfold** » Sat 14 Mar 2009 9:07 pm

okay, figured out the path to the fonts, thx to you guys(and checkserver)...
So, only the rest is left..
When the script is called from a html page via a url link, it opens in a new html page.
Should I paste the script into a html page to make the script appear there?

BR

Ingve

beteljuice · Post by **beteljuice** » Sat 14 Mar 2009 10:52 pm

Aadal give you the clue in the second code box he posted !

It may be a php script, but it is creating an IMAGE, so ...
... within html treat it as an image

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<image src = "http://mysite.com/weather/banner.php" width="468" height="60" border=0 />

But why would you put your own banner on your own weather site (Unless you are advertising it !)

So you would most likley want to add a (new page opening) link and a bit of 'mouse-over'.

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<a href="http://mysite.com/weather" target="_blank" alt="This is my great weather site" title="This is my great weather site"><image src = "http://mysite.com/weather/banner.php" width="468" height="60" border=0 /></a>

ivestfold · Post by **ivestfold** » Sat 14 Mar 2009 11:54 pm

Fantastic! Sorry for asking the spelling from A to Z, but the "image" said it all. And the idea to link it to my site is just for testing

.Thanks for the help guys, now it works..

aadal · Post by **aadal** » Sun 15 Mar 2009 2:01 am

ivestfold wrote:Fantastic! Sorry for asking the spelling from A to Z, but the "image" said it all. And the idea to link it to my site is just for testing .Thanks for the help guys, now it works..

T. her eller der what?
Fortell videre.. ?

ivestfold · Post by **ivestfold** » Sun 15 Mar 2009 9:46 am

That one i didn't understand.. Could you (aadal) by the way tell me how you managed to get the date format in day-month-year?

BR Ingve

TNETWeather · Post by **TNETWeather** » Sun 15 Mar 2009 3:55 pm

ivestfold wrote:When the script is called from a html page via a url link, it opens in a new html page.
Should I paste the script into a html page to make the script appear there?

BR

Ingve

That would be an issue on that HTML page. There is nothing in the original script that would cause it to be displayed in a new page. Do you have a link to that page to show it?

Pasting the script itself into an HTML page would make it fail.

ivestfold wrote: Could you (aadal) by the way tell me how you managed to get the date format in day-month-year?

You can change the format of the date to whatever you want it to be in this section of code:

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if ( $SITE['dateiso'] == "yes" ) {
    // Fix date to use ISO formatted date
    $DATA[0] = "20" . substr($DATA[0],6,2) . '-' . substr($DATA[0],3,2) . '-' . 
        substr($DATA[0],0,2);
} else {
    // Fix date to use Month formatted date
    $DATA[0] = $months[intval(substr($DATA[0],3,2)) -1 ] . 
        " " . intval(substr($DATA[0],0,2)) . " " .
        "20" . substr($DATA[0],6,2);
}

Example:

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$DATA[0] = substr($DATA[0],0,2) . '-' . substr($DATA[0],3,2) . '-' . "20" . substr($DATA[0],6,2);

ivestfold · Post by **ivestfold** » Sun 15 Mar 2009 4:26 pm

Thanks for your help Kevin:-). I haven't quite understood what the changes in the script does, because I really don' understand what the different parameters are, but I copied in your example in my script, and now the date on the banner has the "correct" layout.
When it comes to that the script opened a new page I now understand. The fantastic thing about the script is that it's creating an image which I can link.. AS a matter of fact, when I wrote the first question here yesterday I was conpletely lost, but now, a couple of things are clearer already:-)
Thanks to the participating users:-)

BR Ingve

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