Hi there,

I'm trying to get my guild's MOTD on the frontpage of my site and would like JUST the MOTD. Can someone please tell me how to create a new file that JUST displays the MOTD in text format?

Also, is there a way of making the MOTD image box shorter? The amount of space I have is only about 550 pixels and the text in the mage doesn't wrap.

Thanks

You can change the MOTD to text mode in Roster Config -> Display
Right now the image resizes to the length of text

As for a page that only gets the motd, I don't have any time at the moment to give you an example, I will later though

Great thanks, I look forward to it

Rumik wrote:Also, is there a way of making the MOTD image box shorter? The amount of space I have is only about 550 pixels and the text in the mage doesn't wrap.

Open motd.php and change line 54

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$dimensions = imagettfbbox( 10, 0, $visitor, $guildMOTD );

and line 82

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imagettftext( $img, 10, 0, $text_loc, 23, $textcolor, $visitor, $guildMOTD );

The values "10" (I think 11 in your case) are the text size - just lower them both - and you're done.
Lines 29-31 tell's you how to obtain the MOTD text.

Look over here to check it out :
www.les-potes-ages.fr
What I do on my site (a phpBB2 one) :
I threw in this line :
<div style="text-align:center;margin:10px;"><img src="../roster/motd.php?motd_img" align=middle></div>
on the very last line in the overall_header.tpl file (a template file).

More info about how the retrieve the info can be found in memberslist.php (a roster file), lines 25-50.

Hi there, thanks for replying. That changes the size of the font just fine, but it doesn't reduce the size of the image - is this possible too?

I think I'll just stick to the text version, as it wraps.

So I'd still like to be able to have a file which just the text version of the MOTD in it. Like motd.php but the text version, not the image version.

Just copy parts of motd.php that you need

I have worked a bit on a modified motd.php that checks the length of the MOTD and wraps the text if it's too long. I also resized the image a bit and renamed it gmotd_wrapped.png for when it's wrapped. It would be nice to see the devs clean it up a bit and maybe use it in 1.8.

Rumik wrote:...That changes the size of the font just fine, but it doesn't reduce the size of the image - is this possible too?

That exactly what's the first line should do !
The imagettfbbox function will fitt / reduce the "image size" (the red bar), that's why it's being used in the first place.

Just try to leave to "10" value to an 11 (thge first occurance) - you'll see what I mean.
The Red image bar will be ajusted for 11 point text size, and thus be mutch longer. The text, actually drawn in the second function, will be shorter.

Rumik wrote:...I think I'll just stick to the text version, as it wraps.

One of my old Roster dreams is that the MOTD text image will wrap (if longer then x characters). mdeshane , I'll toys with your upload, that's fore sure ^^

Thanks very much for this, this has definitely started me off on the right track!

Check out http://wivesoflazarou.lanwars.org/index ... &Itemid=14

If I could just get the total length of the image down to 550 pixels then it'll work and not need to be zoomed in on... can you help me configure your motd.php to do this?

Thanks

mdeshane wrote:I have worked a bit on a modified motd.php that checks the length of the MOTD and wraps the text if it's too long. I also resized the image a bit and renamed it gmotd_wrapped.png for when it's wrapped. It would be nice to see the devs clean it up a bit and maybe use it in 1.8.

Rumik: Please re-insert the credits from the roster footer in your integration.

The current MOTD image doesn't support vertical resizing, so breaking the line would require reducing the font enough so it will fit. That might be doable when breaking into two lines, but would definitely result in too small text or look cramped for three lines.

Okiedokie then, the image is a no-go.

Sorry about removing the copyright stuff, I'll sort that as soon as I get home from work.

Any chance I could get some help with having the text MOTD on its own page?

I'm not gonna write the code for you, but you'll have to query the roster DB

SELECT `guild_motd` FROM `roster_guild` WHERE `guild_id` = 1;

Or something along those lines.

Thanks for the tip, I appreciate it, but I don't know php and though I'm sure it's a very simple thing to do, i don't have the time to figure it out, which is why I'm posting here asking for help. If anyone would be kind enough to help me with this, I'd really appreciate it.

I sorted it out myself, thanks for all the input guys.

PleegWat wrote:...but would definitely result in too small text or look cramped for three lines.

True.
But max text size will be clipped to 145 character in the motd.php code.
And
Blizzard doesn't allow us neither to use more then 145 chars (even less, I think) when I edit the MOTD IG.