Help with GD and Bungie's ASHX Images.

[mixmax2]

So, I have this script that gets a bunch of information about a player's stats, it gets things like rank, exp, level, kills, deaths, games played. I then take that information and slap it into a nice gif image using the GD Library. An example of some sigs can be viewed at www.mixjah-design.com/sigs.php

Now, what I want is to beef my script up a bit, and add the player's Avatar, and Player Model, both are .Ashx Generated Images from Bungie.

Example of Avatar Image: http://www.bungie.net/Stats/halo2emblem.ashx?s=70&0=18&1=27&2=3&3=10&fi=52&bi=1&fl=1&m=1

Example of Player Model Image:
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Halo3/PlayerModel.ashx?p1=0&p2=5&p3=5&p4=5&p5=7&p6=18&p7=18&p8=18

And Here's what my script looks like when it creates the signature image, the script that grabs the data isn't important, but know that it fetches the exact url to both the Avatar, and the Player Model Generated Images.

$playername= 'Zero50';
include("siggrabber.php");
header ("Content-type: image/gif");
$image = imagecreatetruecolor(400, 80);
$image2 = @ImageCreateFromGIF ("images/halo3/sig/zero50/sig1template.gif");
$image3 = @ImageCreateFromGIF ("images/halo3/h3ranks/".$imagegrab.".gif");
//$image4 = @ImageCreateFrom??? ("ASHXIMG's URL");
$txt_color1 = ImageColorAllocate ($image, 255, 255, 255); 
imagefilledrectangle($image, 0, 0, 399, 79, $txt_color1);
imagecopymerge ($image, $image2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 400, 80, 100);
imagecopyresized ($image, $image3, 110, 5, 0, 0, 48, 72, 60, 90);
//imagecopyresized ($image, $image4, 74, 53, 0, 0, 19, 19, 70, 70);
ImageString ($image, 2, 234, 6,  $level, $txt_color1);
ImageString ($image, 2, 234, 17,  $tkills, $txt_color1);
ImageString ($image, 2, 234, 28,  $tdeaths, $txt_color1);
ImageString ($image, 2, 234, 39,  $tkd, $txt_color1);
ImageString ($image, 2, 234, 50,  $tgames, $txt_color1);
ImageGIF ($image, "images/halo3/sig/zero50/sig1.gif");

Now Here is the Problem I'm facing, as you can see there are 2 lines of code as comments, those are the 2 pieces I'm hoping to use for the avatar/player model image addition, this specific user's code only wants the avatar image. Now @ImageCreateFrom??? ("ASHXIMG"); Is the Part where I have some trouble, GD has some nice calls like ImageCreateFromGIF, JPG, PNG, and a few others, but what if I need it to get this Generated .ashx image?

Any help would be great, thankyou.

 

[phyrex1an]

Example of Avatar Image: http://www.bungie.net/Stats/halo2emblem.ashx?s=70&0=18&1=27&2=3&3=10&fi=52&bi=1&fl=1&m=1

Example of Player Model Image:
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Halo3/PlayerModel.ashx?p1=0&p2=5&p3=5&p4=5&p5=7&p6=18&p7=18&p8=18

Content-Type image/jpeg

.aspx is just another file ending, exactly like .html, .php or .asp. It's the content type that's important, or even more precisely the the format the content is in.

You can use the ImageCreateFromJPG function.

 

[mixmax2]

Well, I need the content type of the image to be a GIF, any possible way for me to do it with that?

 

[DDRtists]

Content-type: image/jpeg
However, I have to warn you, you have a high chance of getting your IP banned from Bungie.net if you "bot" so to speak, their site. Most companies don't really enjoy 3rd party people taking info from their site.

EDIT: That image is a .jpeg. Just open it as if it was.

 

[mixmax2]

Alright ty, new question, Howdo I convert a jpeg image into a gif image directly through php script, is it possible? (It's not as simple as changing the file extensions.)

 

[DDRtists]

$img = imagecreatefromjpeg('myimage.jpg');
imagegif($img);

Very very basic, just the two functions you could use. For a more in depth idea, check out: http://us2.php.net/imagegif

 

[mixmax2]

I tried in the past to do ImageCreateFromJPEG, and then just turn it into a GIF like that, but it doesn't work, when I try to use the image "created from jpeg" and merge it onto the base image, it gives me an invalid image resource error.

 

[DDRtists]

did you type header("content-type: image/gif"); ?

 

[mixmax2]

yes, I did some searching and as it turns out you cannot use jpg image functions with the content header as gif. Oh well

 

[DDRtists]

Here, try this out:
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/2073.html

 

[mixmax2]

Thanks DDR.

 

[DDRtists]

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