Billmaan- about your blockstats sig (edit: I figured it out)

Thread in 'Discussion' started by Sully, 2 Jun 2006.

  1. Sully

    Sully Unregistered

    Why does your blockstats sig work? No one else's does =(


    Oh, it must because this forum allows BBCode and not HTML. I'm a rookie so I'll mess with it until you reply.
     
  2. Sully

    Sully Unregistered

    Hmm, I'm using what seems to be the right format but it won't work:


    Code:
    [url=http://www.blockstats.org/stats/user_Sully.html][img]http://www.blockstats.org/libraries/playerimage.php?pid=12662fe6c6871f4f2a1bb8870c114a4d[/img][/url]
     
  3. Sully

    Sully Unregistered

    Ok, I figured it out by screwing around with Billmaan's sig's properties. Apparenty he used http://tinyurl.com to shrink the long blockstats url, then added "/fake.gif" to the end, something I would have never known to do:


    Code:
    [url=http://www.blockstats.org/stats/user_Sully.html][img]http://tinyurl.com/pxp6m/fake.gif[/img][/url]
     
  4. Heheh, yep. This forum software doesn't let you use [​IMG]
     
  5. jjdb210

    jjdb210 Unregistered

    Strange... I thought Caff turned HTML on just so they would work. In fact, I'm almost 100% sure that my sig was done in the raw html (cut and pasted). Just curious if anyone else is having this problem, and if it would be helpful on blockstats to add a "forum" BBCode version (since PHPBB seems to be so popular).


    On a seperate note, does anyone know if it's compatible with Nintendo's forums? I'ver never seen how their sig's work (not ranked high enough).
     
  6. Phydeaux

    Phydeaux Unregistered

    Er... I'm not that great, but I'm not THAT bad, either:


     
  7. Whoops, I forgot a step in there. When you set up the tinyurl, make sure to append an ampersand (& symbol) to the end of the blockstats URL. The extra "/fake.gif" will get appended to the real URL, and the ampersand stops it from interfering with the blockstats script.


    EDIT: as of right now, HTML does appear to be on, so you can in fact use the blockstats-provided code: <a href="http://www.blockstats.org/stats/user_Billmaan+.html"><img src="http://www.blockstats.org/libraries/playerimage.php?pid=07b873387bd4ae0afc74b2fb393ffcfa"></a>

    However, you have to uncheck "Disable HTML in this post".


    EDIT 2: um...okay, so apparently you also need to set the "always allow HTML" option in your profile. [​IMG]
     
  8. Phydeaux

    Phydeaux Unregistered

    Ah, that fixed it, thanks.
     
  9. yeah, i was wondering why you guys wanted to use tinyurl. [​IMG]
     
  10. TGM-Liem

    TGM-Liem Unregistered

    Hmm.. http://www.blockstats.org/stats/user_TGM-Liem.html

    There seems to be some kinda mistake in my stats... it constantly dips then up again.. dunno what thats about.. I don't even remember getting that low.... weird..


    I just checked on the Hub.. seems I have someone who copied my name...
     
  11. Phydeaux

    Phydeaux Unregistered


    zomg U R t3h FAM0U$
     
  12. Sully

    Sully Unregistered


    In case anyone missed this- change this option in your profile and the blockstats.org sigs will work.


    Nicholas- can you make "always allow HTML" the default option?



    Oh, and I'm getting close to the required amount of posts on the Nintendo forums to be able to post pics- I'll let you know if it works as a sig over there (which it should).


    edit: what's up with quotes?
     
  13. quotes = version bug. next phpbb2 update will fix it. auto-html-- will work on later.


    edit: for quotes, just take out the name. make them nameless quotes and they'll work fine.
     
  14. jjdb210

    jjdb210 Unregistered

    TGM-Liem - For what it's worth, blockstats will do it's best to default to the highest score. The graph will take a dip, but a majority of the time, it should display the highest score for any given name. Hopefully this works as a solution... If only Grey would get back to me after my last message to him about whether or not Nintendo actually providing a better way for Blockstats to exist (but I just dont' see that happening).
     

  15. If you're looking for a good counter example, Jo is really not working in this regard.
     
  16. jjdb210

    jjdb210 Unregistered

  17. Sully

    Sully Unregistered


    I just got Koopa there, which is the rank required to have a sig. Their forums use HTML, not BBCode, but you can't use "php" in posts or sigs, so the actual blockstats formatted sig link won't work. They have also prohibited the use of tinyurl, so I used briefurl to change the blockstats url and the sig worked (no fake.gif required).


    My only concern is their advertising rule- they might not be too happy with "blockstats.org" in the sig image.
     
  18. jjdb210

    jjdb210 Unregistered

    Ok, so I've made some changes as should be visible...


    <img src="http://www.blockstats.org/memberimage/3ae73ed99250514f2c8c3ebac0af5a55.gif">


    It's obviously showing more information (The TDS Points)

    It's obviously now black on grey.

    It's obviously no longer displaying the blockstats.org (Help with advertising hopefully sully?)

    I've also modified the code that is given to you in the members section of blockstats to give you a .gif instead of a .php, but for those of you who don't want o take the time to go into your account, the translation is quite simple:


    Old URL:

    http://www.blockstats.org/libraries/pla ... bac0af5a55


    New URL:

    http://www.blockstats.org/memberimage/3 ... af5a55.gif


    I ask if you can keep the link to your personal stats, it would be much appreciated. Let me know if that gets rid of the need for things like TinyURL, etc... If not, I can try to do more for ya.
     
  19. Phydeaux

    Phydeaux Unregistered

    The blockstats.org bit didn't bother any of the other forums I frequent, so I don't know if the Nintendo deal has an issue or not. I'd rather have had it on there, even if someone did still click on it they'd wind up at the site.
     
  20. Sully

    Sully Unregistered

    Good work!.


    I don't mean to be a nitpicker, but could you change "TDS Points" to "TDS Rating"??


    And as for taking off the url, is it possible to have two different ones- one with TDS Rating and one with blockstats.org?
     

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