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Making .php look like .png for forums

Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 7:55 am
by Donkey
Hi, i have a dynamic sig I wish for my users to use on forums: http://extremeteenforums.com/forums/sig.php

However, it does not work in [img] tags as it is a .php file. I need a way to make it look like a .png file so this would work..

Help please.

Re: Making .php look like .png for forums

Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 2:50 pm
by Mark Baker

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<img src="http://extremeteenforums.com/forums/sig.php">
is perfectly valid and should work without any problems, so long as sig.php actually returns a valid image with the appropriate headers.

If it isn't working, then the problem is somewhere in sig.php, but as we have no idea what the code looks like, we can't do much to help

Re: Making .php look like .png for forums

Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 3:52 am
by Donkey
Hi,

I was trying to use it on forums which didn't allow embedded php (for obvious reason)-

But I have got this to work by creating a sub directory called signature.png, and putting it there as index.php

Re: Making .php look like .png for forums

Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 3:54 am
by requinix
You can actually use a URL like

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http://extremeteenforums.com/forums/sig.php/image.png
If sig.php exists then the "/image.png" at the end won't make any difference.

Re: Making .php look like .png for forums

Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 5:01 pm
by panic!
assuming you're using apache, if the url is http://extremeteenforums.com/forums/sig.php

in the /forums/ folder create a text file called .htaccess and within it paste:

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule sig.png sig.php
and now http://extremeteenforums.com/forums/sig.png will be routed into sig.php by apache.

Re: Making .php look like .png for forums

Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 11:21 am
by Donkey
panic! wrote:assuming you're using apache, if the url is http://extremeteenforums.com/forums/sig.php

in the /forums/ folder create a text file called .htaccess and within it paste:

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule sig.png sig.php
and now http://extremeteenforums.com/forums/sig.png will be routed into sig.php by apache.
This was really practical and useful, thanks!

Re: Making .php look like .png for forums

Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:25 pm
by panic!
Glad to see it's working for you ;)

http://extremeteenforums.com/forums/sig.png