timROGERS
07-06-2006, 04:10 PM
Since Danny made his piece of pointless GD, I set out to make something with GD that had a purpose and was at least functional and useful to people :P
As soon as I thought about it the idea of an RSS image to my head - how about an image that displays the latest title from an RSS feed?
So, off I set on the work. I dug out my MagpieRSS and set myself to work - I eventually, after around half an hour got a script that retrieved data from an RSS feed, cut it down to only the latest article and display it.
Then, I had to use GD to intergrate it into an image. That took longer - for a while I was unable to test out my work as I didn't have a host that supported GD2, but eventually I got it working.
I showed Tom (Organised) it, and he said that I had ought to add the title of the feed to the image so it made more sense, so I did :P Et voila, the finished product!
I wanted to be able to host it myself, and allow people to select a feed via ?rss=, but I found that HxF does not allow this and it just displays a link, so I decided to make it open source. The complete script is only 120kb, including template, PHP script and MagpieRSS.
Sample: http://www.tim-rogers.co.uk/rssimage/signature.php (some may have problems with this, if so, wait for a while until DNS resolves)
Download:
http://www.vitalhosting.co.uk/~tim/rss.zip
Feel free to edit anything, as long as you publish anything you make ;)
The script is ONLY COMPATIBLE with servers that run GD2 on their PHP.
(This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.)
As soon as I thought about it the idea of an RSS image to my head - how about an image that displays the latest title from an RSS feed?
So, off I set on the work. I dug out my MagpieRSS and set myself to work - I eventually, after around half an hour got a script that retrieved data from an RSS feed, cut it down to only the latest article and display it.
Then, I had to use GD to intergrate it into an image. That took longer - for a while I was unable to test out my work as I didn't have a host that supported GD2, but eventually I got it working.
I showed Tom (Organised) it, and he said that I had ought to add the title of the feed to the image so it made more sense, so I did :P Et voila, the finished product!
I wanted to be able to host it myself, and allow people to select a feed via ?rss=, but I found that HxF does not allow this and it just displays a link, so I decided to make it open source. The complete script is only 120kb, including template, PHP script and MagpieRSS.
Sample: http://www.tim-rogers.co.uk/rssimage/signature.php (some may have problems with this, if so, wait for a while until DNS resolves)
Download:
http://www.vitalhosting.co.uk/~tim/rss.zip
Feel free to edit anything, as long as you publish anything you make ;)
The script is ONLY COMPATIBLE with servers that run GD2 on their PHP.
(This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.)