shadysaiyan Posted May 28, 2008 Share Posted May 28, 2008 Can someone tell me how to make a system similar to this, where users can join and type in there stuff into forms a chooses a background, is saved with there username and stuff? Example: http://www.anime-planet.com/users/signatures/ Example 3: http://www.tripletags.com/ I've searched google like crazy and found some examples: 1. http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/PHP/Generating-Images-on-the-Fly-With-PHP/ 2. http://www.devpapers.com/article/90 3. http://www.php.net/gd But non seem to really go in the form i'm looking for. can someone help me figure out how to do this or point me in the right direction? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkWater Posted May 28, 2008 Share Posted May 28, 2008 Make sure you have the GD library installed first. =P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted May 28, 2008 Share Posted May 28, 2008 Can someone tell me how to make a system similar to this, where users can join and type in there stuff into forms a chooses a background, is saved with there username and stuff? The way you worded your OP it seems to me that what you're really saying is "I don't really know anything about php but I wanna do this cool thing for my site or whatever...so I went looking for some prefab script, but I can't seem to find one I can live with/want." If that's not what you are implying, then my apologies, but if that is what you're saying, then I hate to tell you but you're putting the cart before the horse. You need to either put your project on hold and start with the basics or hire someone to do it for you or learn to live with a prefab one not being exactly the way you want it. You're asking for a pretty tall order there. Registration script. Login script. Membership system. All the things that go with those things to make it run smoothly and securely. Then you want to have the whole make dynamic images thing thrown on top of that. None of these things are too terribly hard to do but they aren't 5 liners, either. I think that the example links you provided are very good pointers in the right direction, as far as what you're wanting to do, content-wise. But again, it seems to me that you're kind of putting the cart before the horse. I think the first thing you need to do is focus on is the whole register/login thing. Or if you don't know the proverbial "hello world" basics, then start there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkWater Posted May 28, 2008 Share Posted May 28, 2008 Crayon makes a good point. Just following a tutorial will only get you so far. When something goes wrong, you need to have PHP knowledge to fix it. If you don't currently have a good grasp on the language, I'd attempt to learn it first. And you don't have a membership system yet? =X Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadysaiyan Posted May 28, 2008 Author Share Posted May 28, 2008 Yeah GD library is installed on my host server. also i really don't know PHP but i 'm pretty good at editing things once i' have them. i don't have a membership system installed yet either, because i don't really know what i want for member in particular besides this kind of thind so far. I know i can find membership systems via hotscripts or something though, but i guess that would teach me much :\ "I don't really know anything about php but I wanna do this cool thing for my site or whatever...so I went looking for some prefab script, but I can't seem to find one I can live with/want." Yeah that's pretty much what i was implying , thanks for replying so quickly too, you two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkWater Posted May 28, 2008 Share Posted May 28, 2008 Write your own membership system, honestly. =P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadysaiyan Posted May 28, 2008 Author Share Posted May 28, 2008 How easy would you say PHP is to learn if you've master's HTML? ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted May 28, 2008 Share Posted May 28, 2008 umm, well, php is a scripting language. html is a markup "language." PHP is pretty easy to learn if you're already familiar with other languages, especially c++ but you can't really compare html to a language... html is basically throwing some tags around stuff to make it look pretty. It doesn't really have anything to do with logic. Well, computer logic, anyways. What "logically" looks pretty or aesthetic is not really the same thing. I mean, comparing php to html is like comparing a car mechanic to one of those people that clean out your car and make it fresh and new-car smelling... The good news is that I would actually recommend php as a good language to start with, for someone entirely new to programming. The bad news is that it's pretty hard to find php tutorials that assume you have no programming experience whatsoever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkWater Posted May 28, 2008 Share Posted May 28, 2008 Some more good news is that you can find tons of books that assume you have no PHP knowledge. Check out PHP6 and MySQL 5 by Larry Ullman. It's a Visual Quickpro thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted May 28, 2008 Share Posted May 28, 2008 Some more good news is that you can find tons of books that assume you have no PHP knowledge. Check out PHP6 and MySQL 5 by Larry Ullman. It's a Visual Quickpro thing. ah, do they have books like that now? they didn't have squat when I first learned Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadysaiyan Posted May 28, 2008 Author Share Posted May 28, 2008 Thanks for the replies guys. but yeah, i guess i'll have to learn from square one. i took Computer Science class before, passed, but i really sucked at it :\ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkWater Posted May 28, 2008 Share Posted May 28, 2008 Some more good news is that you can find tons of books that assume you have no PHP knowledge. Check out PHP6 and MySQL 5 by Larry Ullman. It's a Visual Quickpro thing. ah, do they have books like that now? they didn't have squat when I first learned Yeah, I read the book one day while I was chilling out in Barnes and Nobles. Great book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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