Idiot's Guide to Sig Making?

ScrobblerSig(THx) lets you use a background image.

Thanks for the assist. I'll give it the old college try!

Well, I made my changes, but I don't want to pay for webspace until I know it works. Can anyone help a brother out with some webspace temporarily?

Ah, well now that's what I did wrong! lol

How do you change that script to include multiple songs?

OK, as I said I'm new to PHP, so I give no garantee. ;) (But it seems to work the way it should!)


And at the beginning of the script, where all the variables are, you just add this variable:

$numberOfTracks = 3;

Then, where the actual code is, you replace this:

//Check if a track is currently playing
if($trackData[0] != "") {
$track = $trackData[0];
$label = $currentlyPlayingLabel;
$date = time();
}
else {
$track = $trackData[1];
$label = $lastPlayedLabel;
$date = strtotime($trackData[2]);
}


by this:

if($numberOfTracks > 1) {
for ($t=1; $t<($numberOfTracks*2); $t=$t+2) {
$track = $track.$trackData[$t];
}
}
else {
$track = $trackData[1];
$label = $lastPlayedLabel;
$date = strtotime($trackData[2]);
}

(The "Check if a track is currently playing" didn't work anyway. So you might as well throw that part away. (If you wonder why it works in my sig... I've completly rewritten that part, and I'm also checking if the last track was played today or yesterday, to display that in the label.))


If you set the numberOfTracks-variable to 1, the sig behaves just like the normal ScrobblerSig. But if you choose more than 1 (and up to 10) tracks, it displays the chosen number of tracks, but without any date or time information, and no lastPlayedLabel either. So just the tracks.

Hope that suits your needs. But however you might wanna compare thsi to BelleAndZEK's script... ;)

Brossibaer,

Thanks so much for your help. Looks like I've found a new hobby! lol


One other question, is there a way to convert it from PHP to another format for forums that don't accept PHP image signatures?

Brossibaer, thanks again. That did the trick on one of the two forums, but sadly, not the other.

...is there any way I can change the Scrobblersig PHP script to show other variables from my profile, like number of posts or number of plays? I don't have any of either yet :-)

You'd have to screen-scrape your profile for number of posts, since there's no web service for it (yet).

come on guys..tell me what I do wrong

well yes, that works, but I can't put them on my backgroundiamge..