My Stats Sticker

I’ve been ill this week, so instead of spending my spare time out windsurfing and general enjoying the Welsh coast and countryside I’ve been keeping warm and snug at home and have spent some time playing with the image generating capabilities of PHP. I decided to build a ‘stats sticker’ that members of my Forces-of-Nature website could use to place on their websites or blogs to show off to their visitors how often they get out on the water and how stoked they are!.

Here it is just so that I can test it. It will of course update itself whenever I update my windsurf diary entries on Forces-of-Nature.


I could of course have built it as a normal HTML based iFrame but I decided to use PHP to get the required info from the Forces-of-Nature database and then generate a jpeg image from that info as it should be easier for other people to insert the jpeg image into their existing website. It also gave me a chance to learn something new too which is always good.

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Alan Cole

Alan is a Freelance Website Designer, Sports & Exercise Science Lab Technician and full time Dad & husband with far too many hobbies: Triathlete, Swimming, Cycling, Running, MTBing, Surfing, Windsurfing, SUPing, Gardening, Photography.... The list goes on.