Alternative to iframe on myspace?

[9999]

Lets say I have a dynamic php page that generates a small "daily quote of the day" box:  www.somesite.com/daily_quote.php that I might normally open in an iframe.  Since myspace no longer allows iframes, is there a work-around that I could use to put this on a myspace page?

[simcoweb]

Do they allow tables?

[9999]

Yes, I believe so.  What would be the best way of displaying this in about a 100 x 300 table?

[simcoweb]

Create the PHP script that includes whatever HTML you want it to display and in one of the table cells in you Myspace page use an 'include' tag

 

<include file="yourphpscript.php">

 

You will probably need to use the entire URL to the script file.

 

Just a quick note. To execute PHP scripts your page has to have a PHP extension.

[The Little Guy]

Make a php image, and embed it into myspace.

 

Example:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=61391576

[9999]

Okay... My next question is how do you create a php image?

[The Little Guy]

This code will create 2 lines of text:

<?php

$img_handle = ImageCreate (425, 350) or die ("Cannot Create image"); //Image Size x,y
$back_color = ImageColorAllocate($img_handle, 21, 128, 162); //BG color RBG
$txt_color = ImageColorAllocate($img_handle, 0, 0, 0); //Image text color RBG

$about = "This is an image, Click link below to see.";
ImageString($img_handle, 31, 5, 0, $about, $txt_color);
$about = "YOUR IP ADDRESS IS: ".$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
ImageString($img_handle, 31, 5, 14, $about, $txt_color); //Location of line: ?, ?, left px, top px
?>

[9999]

Seems like the include tag might be easier?  What do you mean by:

To execute PHP scripts your page has to have a PHP extension.

[9999]

Do you mean loading extension to myspace page?  If so, how do you do it?

[The Little Guy]

Include isn't even an html command

[9999]

If my php script automatically updates daily, is there any way to automatically write to the image? In other words take whatever output the php generates and automatically update the image at the same time the php updates?

[The Little Guy]

<?php

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT RAND() FROM table_name LIMIT 1");
$row = mysql_fetch_array($sql);

$img_handle = ImageCreate (425, 350) or die ("Cannot Create image"); //Image Size x,y
$back_color = ImageColorAllocate($img_handle, 21, 128, 162); //BG color RBG
$txt_color = ImageColorAllocate($img_handle, 0, 0, 0); //Image text color RBG

$about = $row['column_name'];
ImageString($img_handle, 31, 5, 0, $about, $txt_color);
?>

[9999]

I want it to be some like this: http://myotherprofiles.com/dailybibleverse/

 

This is the code that he uses:

<p>
<center>
<table style='width: 405px;table-layout:fixed; border-top: thin solid; border-right: thin solid; border-bottom: thin solid;border-left: thin solid;background-color:white'>
<tr>
<td align=center style='background-color:black'>
<a target=_blank href=http://www.myotherprofiles.com/dailybibleverse><img border=0 src=http://www.myotherprofiles.com/dailybibleverse/images/dailybibleverseheader.gif></a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align=center style='border-top: thin solid;'>
<a target=_blank href=http://www.myotherprofiles.com/dailybibleverse><img border=0 src=http://www.myotherprofiles.com/dailybibleverse/images/dailybibleverse.gif></a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align=center style='border-top: thin solid; background-color:black'>


<table border=0 bgcolor=000000>
<COL WIDTH=200><COL WIDTH=200>
<tr>

<td style='border-right: thin solid; background-color:black' align=left><a target=_blank href=http://www.myotherprofiles.com/dailybibleverse><img border=0 src=http://www.myotherprofiles.com/dailybibleverse/images/addtoyourmyspace.gif></a></td>

<td style='border-left: thin solid; background-color:black' align=right><a target=_blank href=http://groups.myspace.com/dailybibleverse><img border=0 src=http://www.myotherprofiles.com/dailybibleverse/images/joingroup.gif></a></td>

</tr>
</table>

</td>
</tr>
</table>
</center><p>

 

How would I implement the result of my php script http://www.mysite.com/daily_quote.php into all of this to make it update automatically?

 

[The Little Guy]

instead of src="http://somesite.com/blah_blah_blah.gif"

 

you would use src="http://somesite.com/my_file_name.php"

[9999]

So, are you saying just replace this: src="http://somesite.com/blah_blah_blah.gif" with this: src="http://somesite.com/my_file_name.php" is all I would have to do or would some type of image still have to be created and embeded?