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jae · Aug 7, 2014

Saddletramp1200 said:
Card punch console, XT, 8088, AT,

Back in the 1980s i took a computering class at my little podunk high school. They handed out punch cards and 5.25" floppies. We didn't even have a reader, and by that time floppies were 3.5". The rest of the semester was just keyboarding.

Saddletramp1200 · Aug 7, 2014

Well My Friends, most of the Morons that heard cars are sleeping now. I am going to see if I can murder some bugs with my old Harley. Midnight bugs taste best!

Emilie · Aug 7, 2014

Unless something is wrong with my server, it didn't like the $.prettydate->format() method and wanted a function.

PHP:

date_format($prettydate, 'F j, Y')

(I reversed day and month)

Emilie · Aug 7, 2014

Saddletramp1200 said:
Well My Friends, most of the Morons that heard cars are sleeping now. I am going to see if I can murder some bugs with my old Harley. Midnight bugs taste best!

Good eatin'!

Emilie · Aug 7, 2014

I've never been all that good at learning new languages. I failed miserably at Spanish and Basic. I don't know why I think PHP and MySQL will be any different.

Emilie · Aug 7, 2014

...and here's my code (based on @jeremy's (not really based on, but outright stolen)).

PHP:

<?php
/*
********************************************************************************************
* x jeremy jarratt coded this terribly didn't he - http://jeremyjarratt.com/ - @transmothra
* PRAISE DOBBS! HAIL ERIS! ALL HAIL DISCORDIA!
* This work is licensed under the
* Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
* To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.
********************************************************************************************
*/

// EDIT THESE NEXT FEW LINES
// set your timezone or suffer the consequences
date_default_timezone_set('America/Chicago');

// set your quit date
$quitdate = "2014-04-29 22:00:00"; // change this to your quit date

// how much is a pack of smokes worth where you live?
$cigprice = 7.20; // omit the dollar sign

// how many packs per day did you smoke?
$packsperday = 1.5; // decimals ok

// how much do you spend on vaping per month?
$vapecostmonthly = 30; // omit the dollar sign

// how many mL per day?
$ml = 6; // omit units

// what nicotine strength in mg/mL?
$mg = 3; // omit units

$juice = 'DIY';

// set your font by filename - UPLOAD YOUR FONT FILE TO THE SAME DIRECTORY
$font = './fonts/tt0142m_.ttf';
$fontb = './fonts/tt0144m_.ttf';

// HEY LET'S CALCULATE A BUNCH OF CRAP (in general, leave this alone)
$prettydate = date_create_from_format("Y-m-j H:i:s", $quitdate); // no, not a girl/boy. just a nicer-looking date format.
$now = time(); // this is really NOW, for comparison to your quit date
$your_date = strtotime($quitdate);
$datediff = $now - $your_date; // compare your quit date to right now (output in seconds)
$datetime1 = new DateTime($quitdate);
$datetime2 = new DateTime();
$interval = date_diff($datetime1, $datetime2); // just another time comparison
$howlong = $interval->format('%y years, %m months, %d days, %h hours, %i minutes, %s seconds');
$vapedays = floor($datediff/(60*60*24)); // convert time since quitting to days (rounded down to eliminate any remainder)
$vapedayspre = $datediff/(60*60*24);
$vapecostdaily = $vapecostmonthly/30; // divide monthly cost by 30 for a daily cost
$vapecost_ttl = $vapecostdaily*$vapedays; // multiply daily vape cost by total days since quitting
$vapesaved = $vapedays*$cigprice*$packsperday; // days x cost x ppd, minus vaping costs
$cigsavoided = floor($packsperday*20*$vapedayspre); // ppd x 20 smokes per pack x total days since quitting
$packs = $cigsavoided/20; // total number of packs avoided since quitting

// format numbers: decimal places, decimal separator, thousands separator
$vapesaved = number_format($vapesaved, 2, '.', ',');
$cigsavoided = number_format($cigsavoided, 0, '.', ',');
$packs = number_format($packs, 0, '.', ',');
$vapedays = number_format($vapedays, 0, '.', ',');

// messages (save some typing and avoid formatting errors)
$cigline = $cigsavoided.' analogs avoided in the '.$vapedays.' days since '.date_format($prettydate, 'F j, Y').' ('.$packs.' packs).';
$moneyline = '$'.$vapesaved.' saved, of which $'.$vapecost_ttl.' was shamelessly vaped.';
$ml = $ml.'mL/day';
$mg = $mg.'mg/mL';

/*
// put in a bunch of quotes or whatever you want; space is limited!; rotated on a random basis
$randomquote = array(
'The SubGenius must have SLACK! (B.Dobbs)',
'Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!',
'How can I be free in the shadow of a chapel? (anon)',
'Act like a dumbshit and they\'ll treat you like an equal (B.Dobbs)',
'Nature abhors a moron. (HL Mencken)',
'Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. (HL Mencken)',
'The highest understanding we can achieve: laughter & human compassion. (Feynman)',
);
$quotation = $randomquote[rand(0, sizeof($randomquote) - 1)];
*/

// DON'T EDIT UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING
$image = './images/signature_bar.png'; // create a banner image with this name; 468 pixels wide by 60 pixels tall
$im = imagecreatefrompng($image);

// set colors (RGB)
$main_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 51, 102, 153);
$black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
$orange = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 140, 0);
$blue = imagecolorallocate($im, 100, 100, 255);
$red = imagecolorallocate($im, 212, 48, 52);
$green = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 160, 0);
$white = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$grey = imagecolorallocate($im, 216, 216, 216);
$yellow = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 216, 64);

// the spacing
$line1vert = 16;
$line2vert = 32;
$line3vert = 48;

// number of pixels for the left margin
$left_margin = 5;
$far_margin = 430;

// THE MAGIC: set font size, font angle, horizontal position, vertical position, color, fontface, text
// Add the text - drop shadow
imagettftext($im, 10, 0, $left_margin-2, $line1vert+2, $black, $fontb, $howlong);
imagettftext($im, 8, 0, $left_margin-2, $line2vert+2, $black, $font, $cigline);
imagettftext($im, 8, 0, $left_margin-2, $line3vert+2, $black, $font, $moneyline);
imagettftext($im, 6, 0, $far_margin-2, $line1vert+2, $black, $font, $ml);
imagettftext($im, 6, 0, $far_margin-2, $line2vert+2, $black, $font, $mg);
imagettftext($im, 6, 0, $far_margin-2, $line3vert+2, $black, $font, $juice);
//imagettftext($im, 8, 0, $left_margin-1, 65, $black, $fontb, $quotation);

// Add the text
imagettftext($im, 10, 0, $left_margin, $line1vert, $red, $fontb, $howlong);
imagettftext($im, 8, 0, $left_margin, $line2vert, $white, $font, $cigline);
imagettftext($im, 8, 0, $left_margin, $line3vert, $white, $font, $moneyline);
imagettftext($im, 6, 0, $far_margin, $line1vert, $white, $font, $ml);
imagettftext($im, 6, 0, $far_margin, $line2vert, $white, $font, $mg);
imagettftext($im, 6, 0, $far_margin, $line3vert, $white, $font, $juice);
//imagettftext($im, 8, 0, $left_margin, 64, $yellow, $fontb, $quotation);

// LEAVE THESE ALONE DAMN YOU
header('Content-Disposition: filename=signature_bar.png');
header('Content-Type: image/png');
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);

?>

jae · Aug 7, 2014

Emilie said:
Unless something is wrong with my server, it didn't like the $.prettydate->format() method and wanted a function.

PHP:

date_format($prettydate, 'F j, Y')

(I reversed day and month)

Interesting. Worked on mine. Guessing it's a version thing or some ini setting.

jae · Aug 7, 2014

Emilie said:
I've never been all that good at learning new languages. I failed miserably at Spanish and Basic. I don't know why I think PHP and MySQL will be any different.

IMHO your code is better than mine. Just sayin'. I'm not all that great (i never got the hang of functions, methods, or classes), but you clearly understand this stuff better than me.

Emilie · Aug 7, 2014

jeremy said:
Interesting. Worked on mine. Guessing it's a version thing or some ini setting.

I have noooooo idea.

See? I know very little.

Emilie · Aug 7, 2014

jeremy said:
IMHO your code is better than mine. Just sayin'. I'm not all that great (i never got the hang of functions, methods, or classes), but you clearly understand this stuff better than me.

Not trying to out-ignorance you or anything, but I keep needing to go back and forth through the books I'm reading just to remember what was mentioned a chapter before. Some of it is STARTING to stick, but before a month ago, I didn't know what a class nor a method were.

Saddletramp1200 · Aug 7, 2014

Emilie said:

...and here's my code (based on @jeremy's (not really based on, but outright stolen)).

PHP:

<?php
/*
********************************************************************************************
* x jeremy jarratt coded this terribly didn't he - http://jeremyjarratt.com/ - @transmothra
* PRAISE DOBBS! HAIL ERIS! ALL HAIL DISCORDIA!
* This work is licensed under the
* Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
* To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.
********************************************************************************************
*/

// EDIT THESE NEXT FEW LINES
// set your timezone or suffer the consequences
date_default_timezone_set('America/Chicago');

// set your quit date
$quitdate = "2014-04-29 22:00:00"; // change this to your quit date

// how much is a pack of smokes worth where you live?
$cigprice = 7.20; // omit the dollar sign

// how many packs per day did you smoke?
$packsperday = 1.5; // decimals ok

// how much do you spend on vaping per month?
$vapecostmonthly = 30; // omit the dollar sign

// how many mL per day?
$ml = 6; // omit units

// what nicotine strength in mg/mL?
$mg = 3; // omit units

$juice = 'DIY';

// set your font by filename - UPLOAD YOUR FONT FILE TO THE SAME DIRECTORY
$font = './fonts/tt0142m_.ttf';
$fontb = './fonts/tt0144m_.ttf';

// HEY LET'S CALCULATE A BUNCH OF CRAP (in general, leave this alone)
$prettydate = date_create_from_format("Y-m-j H:i:s", $quitdate); // no, not a girl/boy. just a nicer-looking date format.
$now = time(); // this is really NOW, for comparison to your quit date
$your_date = strtotime($quitdate);
$datediff = $now - $your_date; // compare your quit date to right now (output in seconds)
$datetime1 = new DateTime($quitdate);
$datetime2 = new DateTime();
$interval = date_diff($datetime1, $datetime2); // just another time comparison
$howlong = $interval->format('%y years, %m months, %d days, %h hours, %i minutes, %s seconds');
$vapedays = floor($datediff/(60*60*24)); // convert time since quitting to days (rounded down to eliminate any remainder)
$vapedayspre = $datediff/(60*60*24);
$vapecostdaily = $vapecostmonthly/30; // divide monthly cost by 30 for a daily cost
$vapecost_ttl = $vapecostdaily*$vapedays; // multiply daily vape cost by total days since quitting
$vapesaved = $vapedays*$cigprice*$packsperday; // days x cost x ppd, minus vaping costs
$cigsavoided = floor($packsperday*20*$vapedayspre); // ppd x 20 smokes per pack x total days since quitting
$packs = $cigsavoided/20; // total number of packs avoided since quitting

// format numbers: decimal places, decimal separator, thousands separator
$vapesaved = number_format($vapesaved, 2, '.', ',');
$cigsavoided = number_format($cigsavoided, 0, '.', ',');
$packs = number_format($packs, 0, '.', ',');
$vapedays = number_format($vapedays, 0, '.', ',');

// messages (save some typing and avoid formatting errors)
$cigline = $cigsavoided.' analogs avoided in the '.$vapedays.' days since '.date_format($prettydate, 'F j, Y').' ('.$packs.' packs).';
$moneyline = '$'.$vapesaved.' saved, of which $'.$vapecost_ttl.' was shamelessly vaped.';
$ml = $ml.'mL/day';
$mg = $mg.'mg/mL';

/*
// put in a bunch of quotes or whatever you want; space is limited!; rotated on a random basis
$randomquote = array(
'The SubGenius must have SLACK! (B.Dobbs)',
'Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!',
'How can I be free in the shadow of a chapel? (anon)',
'Act like a dumbshit and they\'ll treat you like an equal (B.Dobbs)',
'Nature abhors a moron. (HL Mencken)',
'Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. (HL Mencken)',
'The highest understanding we can achieve: laughter & human compassion. (Feynman)',
);
$quotation = $randomquote[rand(0, sizeof($randomquote) - 1)];
*/

// DON'T EDIT UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING
$image = './images/signature_bar.png'; // create a banner image with this name; 468 pixels wide by 60 pixels tall
$im = imagecreatefrompng($image);

// set colors (RGB)
$main_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 51, 102, 153);
$black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
$orange = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 140, 0);
$blue = imagecolorallocate($im, 100, 100, 255);
$red = imagecolorallocate($im, 212, 48, 52);
$green = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 160, 0);
$white = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$grey = imagecolorallocate($im, 216, 216, 216);
$yellow = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 216, 64);

// the spacing
$line1vert = 16;
$line2vert = 32;
$line3vert = 48;

// number of pixels for the left margin
$left_margin = 5;
$far_margin = 430;

// THE MAGIC: set font size, font angle, horizontal position, vertical position, color, fontface, text
// Add the text - drop shadow
imagettftext($im, 10, 0, $left_margin-2, $line1vert+2, $black, $fontb, $howlong);
imagettftext($im, 8, 0, $left_margin-2, $line2vert+2, $black, $font, $cigline);
imagettftext($im, 8, 0, $left_margin-2, $line3vert+2, $black, $font, $moneyline);
imagettftext($im, 6, 0, $far_margin-2, $line1vert+2, $black, $font, $ml);
imagettftext($im, 6, 0, $far_margin-2, $line2vert+2, $black, $font, $mg);
imagettftext($im, 6, 0, $far_margin-2, $line3vert+2, $black, $font, $juice);
//imagettftext($im, 8, 0, $left_margin-1, 65, $black, $fontb, $quotation);

// Add the text
imagettftext($im, 10, 0, $left_margin, $line1vert, $red, $fontb, $howlong);
imagettftext($im, 8, 0, $left_margin, $line2vert, $white, $font, $cigline);
imagettftext($im, 8, 0, $left_margin, $line3vert, $white, $font, $moneyline);
imagettftext($im, 6, 0, $far_margin, $line1vert, $white, $font, $ml);
imagettftext($im, 6, 0, $far_margin, $line2vert, $white, $font, $mg);
imagettftext($im, 6, 0, $far_margin, $line3vert, $white, $font, $juice);
//imagettftext($im, 8, 0, $left_margin, 64, $yellow, $fontb, $quotation);

// LEAVE THESE ALONE DAMN YOU
header('Content-Disposition: filename=signature_bar.png');
header('Content-Type: image/png');
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);

?>

"You can't steal code", but you can replicate someone else's ideas to the point of a punch in the nose. Dr. Marvin Cooper/ USC

jae · Aug 7, 2014

Most of it was cribbed from examples on php.net anyway.

Fat-fingered on my Nexus 4

Emilie · Aug 7, 2014

Oh! That's how I code!

Emilie · Aug 7, 2014

For some reason, while I'm reading my books about all these functions and operators, I can come up with all sorts of ideas on how to use them. Once it's time to come up with code to accomplish something specific, though, my mind goes blank, and I'm off to find code snippets.

I really appreciate you finding the snippets you have and assembling them into something that works, though!

Ace · Aug 7, 2014

10 print"hello"
20 goto 10

that is about as far as I ever made it, and that may even be wrong.lol

Hobby Kid · Aug 7, 2014

jeremy said:
Wow, i honestly thought i was the only person ever who knew a little bit of PHP yet didn't know any JavaScript! Now i don't feel quite so alone.

First rule of JavaScript - nobody learns about JavaScript

Saddletramp1200 · Aug 7, 2014

probe scsi /all
load scsi /all
I don't want too /so there!

jae · Aug 7, 2014

Ace said:
10 print"hello"
20 goto 10

that is about as far as I ever made it, and that may even be wrong.lol

Output:
hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello
etc haha

Fat-fingered on my Nexus 4

Saddletramp1200 · Aug 7, 2014

I can't do that, Dave /what are you doing, Dave /
Online Tech support, My name is Tramp, how can I help you? It's doing what? eww. Type format c: /s /u now hit enter.
Thank You for calling Tech support, goodby.........

Emilie · Aug 11, 2014

@jeremy, would you mind if I "borrow" your code and perhaps turn it into a hosted solution for others to use?

I can't guarantee that I'll do that, but I wouldn't mind practicing and getting better with PHP and MySQL.

Only if you don't mind.

jae · Aug 11, 2014

Emilie said:
@jeremy, would you mind if I "borrow" your code and perhaps turn it into a hosted solution for others to use?

I can't guarantee that I'll do that, but I wouldn't mind practicing and getting better with PHP and MySQL.

Only if you don't mind.

Absolutely, why not!

Emilie · Aug 11, 2014

jeremy said:
Absolutely, why not!

Thanks!

Emilie · Sep 3, 2014

Took long enough...

Unfortunately, you need to sign up in order to use it, but I'll change that, eventually.

If anyone does decide to sign up, it will be in your Member Area down on the left side under "About Me" -> "Signature".

http://mod.bid

Emilie · Sep 4, 2014

For those of you who are NOT members:

http://mod.bid/sigimage.php

UncleRJ · Sep 4, 2014

If I ever forget my age I can just figure out my age by counting the folds/rings in my........(fill in the blank if you dare

)

MrScaryZ · Sep 9, 2014

Hobby Kid said:
First rule of JavaScript - nobody learns about JavaScript

Funny thing man when I worked for Sun Microsystems (Creators of Java) They said their biggest mistake was making the slowest bloated Interpreted language of all time.. It does not matter as much today as it did since computers are multi-core but in the early days we had java apps back in the 90's they would literally take 10 minutes to start up on a high end UNIX system hahaha

Hobby Kid · Sep 10, 2014

Mrscaryz said:
Funny thing man when I worked for Sun Microsystems (Creators of Java) They said their biggest mistake was making the slowest bloated Interpreted language of all time.. It does not matter as much today as it did since computers are multi-core but in the early days we had java apps back in the 90's they would literally take 10 minutes to start up on a high end UNIX system hahaha

you worked for Sun.. cool!
i don't really remember thier litle applets being slow, but then it's going back a while now. we used them on our phones. i don't keep up with it anymore but java was seen as a highly regarded language. it went like this: first learn C > delphi or asp > Java > then you're employable. times have changed

MrScaryZ · Sep 10, 2014

Hobby Kid said:
you worked for Sun.. cool!
i don't really remember thier litle applets being slow, but then it's going back a while now. we used them on our phones. i don't keep up with it anymore but java was seen as a highly regarded language. it went like this: first learn C > delphi or asp > Java > then you're employable. times have changed

Yep worked for Sun for 3 years

ask me who I have not worked for would be the best question hahaha .....

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