Author Topic: WorldNews "TrendSig" (Read 6753 times)

KermMartian · « **on:** December 01, 2006, 09:26:00 am »

As suggested by several people, I have added Digg to the Google News Trends service, renamed it WorldTrends, and made a dynamically-generated signature with headlines and trends to go with it. Enjoy!

http://www.cemetech.net/projects/newstrends.phpc1-->

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Halifax · « **Reply #1 on:** December 01, 2006, 03:27:00 pm »

wow that is pretty sweet. Could you teach me how to make things like that.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #2 on:** December 01, 2006, 03:57:00 pm »

wow nice, but will this take a while to load? If not then it would be cool. but i wish you would make one showing activity in the community by grabing news from all active websites ^.^

Halifax · « **Reply #3 on:** December 01, 2006, 04:46:00 pm »

Yeah that's what I was going to do

lol if I learned how to do it. I was also going to do some other things.

KermMartian · « **Reply #4 on:** December 04, 2006, 02:51:00 am »

QuoteBegin-xlibman+1 Dec, 2006, 21:57-->

QUOTE (xlibman @ 1 Dec, 2006, 21:57)

wow nice, but will this take a while to load? If not then it would be cool. but i wish you would make one showing activity in the community by grabing news from all active websites ^.^

Nope, it won't take a long time to load. The reason for that is it's not generated on-the-fly when a page requests it. It's written as a static image by the script that collects data from Google and Digg once per minute, so you don't have to worry about load times at all.

Halifax · « **Reply #5 on:** December 04, 2006, 10:37:00 am »

Kerm can you teach me how to make something like that?

KermMartian · « **Reply #6 on:** December 04, 2006, 02:13:00 pm »

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QUOTE (Halifax @ 4 Dec, 2006, 16:37)

Kerm can you teach me how to make something like that?

Well, to start with, you should know PHP and have a php-enabled webspace. Do you?

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #7 on:** December 05, 2006, 02:40:00 am »

I still vote for a version showing stats for TI websites %)

KermMartian · « **Reply #8 on:** December 05, 2006, 02:58:00 am »

QuoteBegin-xlibman+5 Dec, 2006, 8:4-->

QUOTE (xlibman @ 5 Dec, 2006, 8:40)

I still vote for a version showing stats for TI websites %)

Yeah yeah, I probably will add that as an option in WorldTrends, except perhaps make it reload every 5 minutes or so. I would probably get fora feeds from the major forums as an indication of activity.

Halifax · « **Reply #9 on:** December 05, 2006, 10:01:00 am »

Yes I know PHP but I do not have a PHP enabled host. Who hosts your site??

Demon · « **Reply #10 on:** December 05, 2006, 12:10:00 pm »

That is cool.
[off-topic] BTW, how do you get the gradient text? Do you have to use a loop or something (that's what I had to do) or is there an easier way?

KermMartian · « **Reply #11 on:** December 05, 2006, 12:52:00 pm »

@Halifax: I have JatolEconomy, but the company doesn't offer my package anymore (http://www.jatol.com).

@Demon:
1. It starts with this image:
user posted image

2. It then drops the icons and text on top.
3. Next, it drops this image on top:
user posted image

4. Finally, it writes the resultant to trendsig.png.

bfr · « **Reply #12 on:** December 05, 2006, 01:21:00 pm »

Halifax: Try http://www.freehostia.com or http://www.awardspace.com

Kerm: Looks neat!

Demon · « **Reply #13 on:** December 06, 2006, 02:25:00 am »

[Kerm]: Hmm... I should probably do that with my background so I can save a buttload of CPU not making it have to start with a blank image and draw the gradients via loop each time.

EDIT: Done. Much faster!

KermMartian · « **Reply #14 on:** December 06, 2006, 02:56:00 am »

Excellent. Now, are you outputting to file each time a line gets added, or is it htaccessed to the php script?