ProBoards Plugin Library

[Texas]

Jul 17, 2013 10:57:20 GMT -8 Ryan Roos said:

Jul 17, 2013 10:54:12 GMT -8 Texas said:

Thanks RedBassett..

If proboards charged you every time you submitted a plugin update...

That's a great idea!!!

Hold on while I implement this.

Ummm, you'd lose all my codes if that happened, cause I'm a penny pincher and in highschool so I don't really have that kind of money... I think you guys should pay us I mean we are semi-helping aren't we

Peter Yea, I basically get it. Don't really know much PHP but most of that was fairly basic so I think I get it. Thanks

[Wormopolis]

nope. no contract was ever established that anyone had to write plugins (that arent official proboards). everything submitted is of your own free will.

perhaps in the future, it will be possible to write a plugin that someone has to pay to download though...

[Texas]

I new someone was going to say that

[Wormopolis]

its how its always been man. Its also why no one could really "demand" a deadline on a v4 code or v5 plugin. they were free. you get what you pay for. if the current version has a small bug, you say "oops" and submit a new version. it was free. you dont need to apologize for volunteering your time to help someone.

things would change a bit if the plugin costed money. I dont think there would be any "I will write 20 plugins and then leave for a year" kinds of behavior. I think if you charge someone for a plugin, then your attention is demanded to support it. otherwise you should just prepare to give refunds.

[Texas]

Yea, never really actually wanted to be paid though. If I was being paid for this I would end up spending too much time here and not enough in my actual life.

[Wormopolis]

I dont like my actual life very much. Im much cooler online.

[Peter]

Texas

Here is my class for creating the image if it still interests you...

final class Plugin_Statistics_Image {

private $text;
private $size;
private $color;
private $font;

private $image;

public function __construct($text = "", $size = 18, $color = "000000", $font = ""){
$this -> text = $text;
$this -> size = $size;
$this -> font = $font;
$this -> color = $color;

$this -> create_image();
}

private function create_image(){
$image_width_height = $this -> create_bounding_box();

$this -> image = imagecreatetruecolor($image_width_height[0], $image_width_height[1]);

ImageFill($this -> image, 0, 0, IMG_COLOR_TRANSPARENT);
imagesavealpha($this -> image, true);
imagealphablending($this -> image, false);

$y = (($image_width_height[1] / 2) + ($this -> size / 2));

imagettftext($this -> image, $this -> size, 0, 5, $y, $this -> color, $this -> font, $this -> text);
}

private function create_bounding_box(){
$type_space = imagettfbbox($this -> size, 0, $this -> font, $this -> text);
$image_width = abs($type_space[4] - $type_space[0]) + 10;
$image_height = abs($type_space[5] - $type_space[1]) + 10;

return array($image_width, $image_height);
}

public function save($file_name = null){
$name = (isset($file_name) && strlen($file_name))? $file_name : (time() . "_image");
$name .= ".png";

imagepng($this -> image, $name);
}

public function show(){
header("content-type: image/png");
imagepng($this -> image);
imagedestroy($this -> image);
exit();
}

}

Example of how I am using it...


include_once("classes/plugin_statistics.class.php");
include_once("classes/plugin_statistics_image.class.php");

$stats = new Plugin_Statistics("yootil_library");

$installs = $stats -> installs();

$text = $installs . " forum" . (($installs == 1)? "" : "s") . " have the Yootil Library installed";
$image = new Plugin_Statistics_Image($text, 20, "000000", "fonts/TravelingTypewriter.ttf");
$image -> save("yootil_stat_sig");

I would recommend setting up a cron to generate the png every X minutes. Mine is set to every 15 mins.

[Shorty]

Tim Camara would it possible to add where we get an email when somewhere rates/reviews our plugin/theme. I like to read the reviews, but I don't check the reviews every day. So an email saying that it's happened would be nice.

[Tim Camara]

Not at this time.

[Wormopolis]

what about a compromise? when you look at the list of plugins by author, it lists them in some unknown order. could they be sorted by date of last review and then last upload (if those are stored variables)?

[David Clark]

The library is continuously being updated and I'm sure Tim has taken these suggestions into account, but I advise just creating a folder of bookmarks with library plugin pages within if you want to keep tabs on your reviews and scores, with a page watcher checking the pages if you want email updates when new reviews come in. That's what I do.

[Wormopolis]

Aug 1, 2013 13:56:30 GMT -8 David Clark said:

The library is continuously being updated and I'm sure Tim has taken these suggestions into account, but I advise just creating a folder of bookmarks with library plugin pages within if you want to keep tabs on your reviews and scores, with a page watcher checking the pages if you want email updates when new reviews come in. That's what I do.

We know.  but we still like to throw out ideas in case the devs latch on to it.  I wasnt implying Tim had to drop anything for anything.  tossing out new ideas only helps to make the end product that much appealing.

as for page watch, Im giving that shot now too.  I wasnt even aware these existed!  thank you.

[David Clark]

You guys come up with the best ideas - I just didn't want to seem like I was speaking on Tim's behalf.

[Former Member]

I am woondering, I read that some plug-in boards will close soon. Why close a extremely crucial part of ProBoards?

[Wormopolis]

you misunderstood. the plugin subboard will be merged with the regular plugin board.