Sigy Manual

Notes

MT Forum rules say sig pics aren't allowed to be more than 600 x 125 pixels. The ID number in the bottom right is positioned based on being 600px wide, any thinner and it'll be pushed off screen.

To fit in the biggest allowable box, quotes need to be at most 80 x 5 characters

There's a limit to how many quote sigs you can fit in one forum before they get annoying. Current limitation is one or two people per forum; if more people want accounts for one forum I'll give priority to whoever has the best text database :)

Disclaimers, Rules, Info & Stuff

• The overriding thing -- I reserve the right to do anything with any data stored on my server or using my services, with the one exception that I'll never give away anyone's personal info. It's *very* unlikely that I'll ever use these powers, but I'd like to have them in case of emergency :)
• This is just a bit of fun for me; if it stops being fun, I won't bother with it any more. Any harshness in the following is just to make life easier for me, so that the projects remain fun for as long as possible.
• Don't add anything too offensive - swearing and non-politically correctness is fine, so long as it's obviously meant with humour. Sexual humour is also fine, but no blatant porn or weird fetish stuff.
• This is currently hosted on my home connection, it's not fast, nor particularly stable; hence it may be offline at times inconvinient to you - I thus take no responsibility if the projects are unavailable in your time of need
• This project is entirely at my mercy - Should I find some reason to stop it (ie excess abuse, bandwidth useage, etc), I'll edit the user's info (likely), ban them (if they're repeatedly being dicks), or stop the service entirely (very unlikely; it'd take a lot of stupidity to convince me to give up one of my hobbies).

Tech Info

Args are fed in via the regular HTTP GET method; first argument uses a ? to separate filename and arg, then the rest use &, eg

siggy.php?user=siggy
siggy.php?user=shish&search=moo
fortune.php?search=jose&noids=yes

Alternatively, there are shortcuts for common commands:
http://siggy.shishnet.org/[username].png - to get at a user's database
http://siggy.shishnet.org/[username].xml - to get at a user's feed
http://siggy.shishnet.org/[number].png - to get a specific message by ID

siggy.php: generates a .png image

• user=[name]:
  picks a quote from the user [name]'s collection
• id=[number]:
  shows a specific message
• search=[word]:
  shows a random quote that matches the word

rss.php: generates an .rss feed

• user=[name]:
  shows [user]'s last 10 additions, or all recent additions if no user specified

fortune.php: generates a unix fortune file

• user=[name]:
  dumps all of the user [name]'s collection
• search=[text]:
  does a case-insensetive, exact text match on the whole database, dumps results
• noids=[blah]:
  if set to anything, message IDs are hidden