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Thread ID: 72964 2006-10-02 20:35:00 Where find your IP address?! stuffed (1469) Press F1
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488631 2006-10-03 05:55:00 Fancy, and yet it still says "your" instead of "you're". So not THAT fancy :xmouth:

But "you're" means "you are" while "your" is the posessive case of you, meaning belonging to you

So I am perplexed by "your" understanding that the code is wrong.

You would not say "You are IP is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
You would say "Your IP is ...."

Or have I missed something here...? 		godfather (25)
488632 2006-10-05 20:04:00 But "you're" means "you are" while "your" is the posessive case of you, meaning belonging to you

So I am perplexed by "your" understanding that the code is wrong.

You would not say "You are IP is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
You would say "Your IP is ...."

Or have I missed something here...?

Quoting directly from the generated image (www.danasoft.com):

Your IP is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx! Your ISP is xxxxxxxxxxxx.net!
You are running on Windows XP and using Firefox!
Smile your on camera 		pixeldust (6619)
488633 2006-10-05 20:39:00 Ah, so I was right!

I did miss something there...

Ooops 		godfather (25)
488634 2006-10-06 00:08:00 It's simply a script inserted in the page. The page he links to is just a fancy way of displaying it within an image.

Here's how (www.allscoop.com).

I'd forgotten how much I dislike PHP. It completely lacks structure, tacking all sorts of features into the core distribution without regard for organisation. Here's the equivalent code on Ruby:



require 'cgi'
# Rubygems is only required if RMagick is installed as a gem
require 'rubygems'
require 'RMagick'

cgi = CGI.new
WIDTH = 275
HEIGHT = 25

canvas = Magick::Image.new(WIDTH, HEIGHT) {
self.background_color = "#666699"
self.format = "PNG"
}

drawing = Magick::Draw.new

# Set font parameters
drawing.pointsize 14
drawing.stroke "white"
drawing.fill "white"
drawing.text_align Magick::CenterAlign

# Draw text. The 3 extra pixels of height adjust for font size (the reference point is not quite the top left)
drawing.text WIDTH / 2, HEIGHT / 2 + 3, "Your IP is #{ENV["REMOTE_ADDR"]}"

# Draw on canvas
drawing.draw(canvas)

cgi.out("Content-type" => "image/png") do
# Spit the image out in binary form
canvas.to_blob
end


I realise this is much longer than the PHP equivalent, but it involves loading only the components we need, involves significant commentary and doesn't involve magic numbers or mysterious variables that are only ever fed back into another function. 		TGoddard (7263)
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