{"id":140,"date":"2006-11-18T16:12:37","date_gmt":"2006-11-18T16:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/my-stats-sticker\/"},"modified":"2006-11-20T08:02:12","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T08:02:12","slug":"my-stats-sticker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/11\/my-stats-sticker\/","title":{"rendered":"My Stats Sticker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been ill this week, so instead of spending my spare time out windsurfing and general enjoying the Welsh coast and countryside I&#8217;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 &#8216;stats sticker&#8217; 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!.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forces-of-nature.co.uk\/dbdriven\/diary\/diary.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forces-of-nature.co.uk\/dbdriven\/home\/diary_stats_banner.php?u=justal\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/>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. 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