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Club for the scripted signatures.

This is not a "can you make me a signatur" - Request club but a club to request and share the knowlegde how to make one yourself.

What are scripted signatures?

Lately you've might have seen, those signatures with a different font appear more and more on the forums. Those signatures are not from MAL, they just show the data wich is attained by MAL.
This also means those signatures aren't supported and hosted by MAL.
With every custom signature there comes a script wich collects the data from MAL and the user who owns this data and let them appear on an image.

How can I get one?

You'll need three things:

1.)
A webserver wich supports scripting languages like PHP, ASP or Python. It's hard to find a free one that is good, most people here who write the scripts did pay for their webserver or have them running at home. Most signatures are written in PHP.

2.)
Knowing the basics of the chosen scripting language. We won't help you to learn PHP, there are enough other websites found with google who teach you the basics.

3.)
A premade script and alot of motivation to get it done so it harmonize with your server. We already have some premade stuff here at the forums you can download for free, some have a little documentation and samples in their package wich should be read and tested.
Ofcourse you can write your own stuff if you don't like to have something premade but it's useful to see how our scripts work.

Make sure you don't say "I don't know anything, please help" because then you're missing here at least 2 of 3 points.

oh and for the codeshare wich occurs here often: http://pastebin.com/

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minimal replacement for shiteiru's script (w/ support for anime/manga merged feeds!) ( 1 2 3 4 5 ... Last Page ) saka	109 replies	by KokoroChan »» 11-17-09, 1:30 PM
Looking for 100% free Hoster Miu-nya	1 replies	by Joe4evr »» 11-10-09, 6:03 AM
Decent Hoster ehrgeiz	10 replies	by mushwars »» 11-02-09, 6:20 PM
Talon Signature Core Script ( 1 2 3 4 5 ... Last Page ) Niroko	107 replies	by Desire »» 08-16-09, 4:57 AM
Glow Effect and more Niroko	0 replies	by Niroko »» 08-06-09, 11:19 AM

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saka | 11-08-09, 3:40 PM

well, when the server runs the script using cron, it does it with the current directory set to your home directory (/home/a1234567/) instead of the script's directory where your fonts and images are. By changing the current directory to the script directory, this fixes the file paths when cron runs it. ;)

Nitre | 11-08-09, 3:34 PM

Ooh, that certainly seems to have done something. What exactly is it doing?

saka | 11-08-09, 10:47 AM

put this near the top of your script to correct the environment path:

// try to correct environment path
@chdir(realpath(dirname($argv[0])));

Nitre | 11-08-09, 10:24 AM

Yeah, clicking the php itself updates it fine, and i'm using a cronjob site as well which works fine as well.

At the moment i'm trying 2 jobs, php -f /home/a7472950/signature/currentsig.php and php -f /home/a7472950/public_html/signature/currentsig.php, but neither of them seem to be working, as i set them up an hour or more ago to update every 15 minutes, and nothing seems to have happened yet.

evan | 11-08-09, 9:50 AM

What do you have in the cronjob?

If you go to the php page directly does your sig get updated?

Nitre | 11-08-09, 9:48 AM

I've tried using the 000webhost cronjobs but they don't seem to work for some reason. I've set the permissions of the php to 777, as well as the folders that it's in, but it hasn't seemed to make a difference. I made a new domain to try it out, but it's not working as far as i can tell. I don't think it worked on the one i've been using up until now either, even though i set them to work on every sig every 15 mins, they haven't updated for ages.

saka | 11-07-09, 4:51 PM

000webhost allows 5 minute intervals btw.. i think 10 minutes is plenty fast enough though... it's not like people are constantly looking for what you watched. With malu, it's going to update partway into the episode and the cron will update it before you finish a 24 min episode anyway. It's not really critical time-sensitive info anyhow... ;)

saka | 11-07-09, 4:48 PM

if you're using 000webhost, why not use the cron jobs they provide? :-/

something like:

usually you can't have cron jobs more often than 5 minutes with any service, unless it's your own server or you have direct access to cron via ssh.

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Created: Jul 7, 2008

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