http://www.smart-techie.com/blog/2006/08/creating-dynamic-avatars-for-forums-php-scripting-htaccess-in-apache/ My opinion about anything and everything! Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:33:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.smart-techie.com/blog/2006/08/creating-dynamic-avatars-for-forums-php-scripting-htaccess-in-apache/#comment-70 WiseTechie.com » Blog Archive » Playing with .htaccess Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:41:48 +0000 http://www.smart-techie.com/blog/2006/08/computing/creating-dynamic-avatars-for-forums-php-scripting-htaccess-in-apache/#comment-70 [...] Now when you are done with reading my tutorial you must realise this is just the basics , the vegetables for the roasted vegetables , you got to put the bits and pieces together to create a masterpiece. For those of you wondering what can we do with a .htaccess file , Here is something Rohit cooked up for us over at  his blog Now you guys have probably seen that the avatars on this forum are static, they have to be manually changed before you can use a new one. Now take a look at my avatar url http://www.smart-techie.com/images/avatar.gif Now what happens when you view it? You see a jpg or a gif image. Try accessing the same url 5 or more times… Did you notice something? The picture changes automatically at random (amongst a set of 3 pics) If you didn’t see this try more times How does it happen? The first part is a VERY simple php script on my webserver (you need a hosting account with php scripting enabled for running scripts). Also (in Linux) CHMOD the files to give execute permission to everyone. The php code that I am using is [...] [...] Now when you are done with reading my tutorial you must realise this is just the basics , the vegetables for the roasted vegetables , you got to put the bits and pieces together to create a masterpiece. For those of you wondering what can we do with a .htaccess file , Here is something Rohit cooked up for us over at  his blog Now you guys have probably seen that the avatars on this forum are static, they have to be manually changed before you can use a new one. Now take a look at my avatar url http://www.smart-techie.com/images/avatar.gif Now what happens when you view it? You see a jpg or a gif image. Try accessing the same url 5 or more times… Did you notice something? The picture changes automatically at random (amongst a set of 3 pics) If you didn’t see this try more times How does it happen? The first part is a VERY simple php script on my webserver (you need a hosting account with php scripting enabled for running scripts). Also (in Linux) CHMOD the files to give execute permission to everyone. The php code that I am using is [...]

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