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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Forum Random Quotes Generator - salting your forum signature with wits
« on: May 15, 2007, 12:52 AM »
Mouser, u scared me!
that's soooo untrue (otherwise plz rename my forum name to wordsucker :D :D)! It fetches only a string with maximum length of 450 characters from the user server (consumes very little bandwidth). And the script on mrcody.com will stop running after 3 seconds of execution, so there's even less chance it could overload servers.
Remember the Random quote picker on the user server is responsible for picking out a single quote every time it runs. :)
It is so designed that the user will not need PHP GD2 library on his server in order to get the thing to work (just call the text-to-image converter on mrcody.com to do the job), while offering the flexibility for him to script his own random quote generator (he may prefer getting quotes from mysql, adding more ASCII flavors to the end output quote, etc.)
do i understand that your running the script off mrcody, and each time a quote needs to be shown, your mycody.com hosted script re-downloads the quote file from users pc, and picks one and displays it.. each time?
that's soooo untrue (otherwise plz rename my forum name to wordsucker :D :D)! It fetches only a string with maximum length of 450 characters from the user server (consumes very little bandwidth). And the script on mrcody.com will stop running after 3 seconds of execution, so there's even less chance it could overload servers.
set_time_limit(3);
$len_limit = 450;
Remember the Random quote picker on the user server is responsible for picking out a single quote every time it runs. :)
It is so designed that the user will not need PHP GD2 library on his server in order to get the thing to work (just call the text-to-image converter on mrcody.com to do the job), while offering the flexibility for him to script his own random quote generator (he may prefer getting quotes from mysql, adding more ASCII flavors to the end output quote, etc.)