I see you guys now have custome SETI signatures instead of the "generic" versions I'm using.

Can someone point me in the direction of the code as I'd like to incoporate it into my own signature instead of having to use 3 as you see below
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> I see you guys now have custome SETI signatures instead of the "generic"
> versions I'm using.
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> Can someone point me in the direction of the code as I'd like to incoporate it
> into my own signature instead of having to use 3 as you see below
> .

Are you looking for the actual code or a website offering the multi-project statistic images? The code for my signature will be released when I have the last part of it finished. I won't have a public hosting site for it anytime soon though.

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I'd like to have code that I could run on my server, but not just signature stuff, I'd like a link to all scripts that you, or anyone else knows of.......things similiar to pstats for SETI Classic.

Basically stuff I can use to broadcast my SETI participation in a format that I can alter because I tend to edit my entire site every couple of months.
http://www.brainsmashr.com/pstats.php
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> I'd like to have code that I could run on my server, but not just
> signature stuff, I'd like a link to all scripts that you, or anyone else knows
> of.......things similiar to pstats for SETI Classic.

The code that I'm using is a GPL'd set of scripts released by AthlonRob. There's a post on this forum from a few months ago by AthlonRob with the URL to download.

It's basically a Perl script to download and import the XML exports to MySQL and uses PHP to generate the image. Setup a couple cron jobs to download the XML files and it's done. The image in that download is only a single project image that I used as a base to write my current signature. It also contains php scripts to pull team information, user information, etc. for an IRC bot but can easily be modified for html viewing (which I've also started to do). Eventually I'll have the scripts written to show the data like the page you've linked but I haven't finished it yet.

If I can find the link to the download I'll post it here - have to search the forums for it. There are a couple small bugs with it that have been fixed and will be included in the next release as well as updated features (like my signature script). I can also put the current code of my signature here if you want, but it's not done yet.

Edit: Found the thread here.

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OMG dude, how did you even set this up? I can't even get the sql file to install and i'm using phpMyAdmin......I don't think you can screw things up wit that.

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How do I test to see if perl is even installed on my server?

Why isn't all of this written in php??

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Well, I have perl installed on my server, as I was able to access a test.pl and test it.......but I'm still lost on making that parse.pl script update MySQL.

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The SQL file in the archive only seemed to work on the newest version of MySQL. You have to make changes to the SQL file to make it work with older MySQL servers. Here's the file that I use to add tables for each project. See if it works for you.

> Why isn't all of this written in php??

AthlonRob didn't want to? Pearl is faster than php? I have no idea why, you'd have to ask AthlonRob about that one.

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Thanx for your reply, but the perl script is the problem.

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Next question, do I have to edit every single file and include MY username and password? Currently I have only edited sig.php but I get a no id specified when I try to pull that page up, even though I have hardcoded my Id in that script.

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> Next question, do I have to edit every single file and include MY username and
> password? Currently I have only edited sig.php but I get a no id specified
> when I try to pull that page up, even though I have hardcoded my Id in that
> script.

You need to add your login, password, server and database information to the perl script and to the signature script. (You will need to add it to the other scripts if you're going to use them.) You also need to set the download URL for the project and specify each filename in the perl script. (1 copy of the perl script is needed for each project you are going to use.)

Once you've done that and created the database file from the SQL code I linked above, you need to run the perl script from a command line (telnet session), not through the web server.

You should see:
Teams Downloaded
Users Downloaded
Hosts Downloaded
.. and the prompt again.

Then you need to find an image you want to use as your background for the image (PNG format). Make sure you save it as base.png or whatever you have the sig.php file looking for.

Then you should be able to view the image by putting sig.php?id=12345&project=sah in html img tags.

... is what the signature image will look like (except for the background). Once that works, my multi-project image script will work.

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Thanx for your help, but I'm going to have to pass.

Your talking over my head, I don't know jack about perl, the "script" is written in multiple languages, and I've seen 3rd graders provide better documentation than what's included with the download.

Again, thanks for your help, but this toy isn't worth the 2 days I've spend trying to get it to work.....espically when I'm not even sure this is going to work on my server.


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Got 2 of those SkyKing, one for BOINC and one for SETIClassic, but I want only part of that info, and I want it to display in my own Dynamic Signature, which you see below.

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> Got 2 of those SkyKing, one for BOINC and one for SETIClassic, but I want only
> part of that info, and I want it to display in my own Dynamic Signature, which
> you see below.

I don't think SkyKing was trying to add anything usefull to this thread. We just got spammed by a signature test.

> and I've seen 3rd graders provide better documentation than what's included with the download.

If you can't figure it out that's fine but you don't need to start taking shots at it. It is a "work in progress" package which was released as-is so people could start using it the way they wanted.

Maybe try the next version once it's released. If I can figure out how, I'll write a .php script to act as the downloader.

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>"It is a "work in progress" package......"

You cannot possibly imagine how tired I am of hearing that about BOINC, and now, apparently, anything related....although it seems to work fine for those "in the know".

It's nothing personal against the author, just a statment of the obvious. I mean there is nothing in those instructions about accessing parse.pl via a telnet connection. Had I read that first, I would have known that this is over my head because I don't know enough about Linux to deal with my server like that.

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> You cannot possibly imagine how tired I am of hearing that about BOINC, and
> now, apparently, anything related....although it seems to work fine for those
> "in the know".
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> It's nothing personal against the author, just a statment of the obvious. I
> mean there is nothing in those instructions about accessing parse.pl via a
> telnet connection. Had I read that first, I would have known that this is
> over my head because I don't know enough about Linux to deal with my server
> like that.

Actually, as one of those that says it, I know how tiring it is to always hear it. But it is the truth. In the early days of automobiles you could have your car in any color as long as the color was black. A few years drifted by and here we are in the age of the "Saturn" to "Lexus LS-400" (or Mercedes S-Class).

None of us likes the amount of work yet to be done. I did documentation because it is something that needed to be done. It helped that I have some small skill in that, and can figure things out based upon my time as a systems engineer. Others have done things with add-on programs like BOINC View and the signature sites because they could understand those parts.

This is one of the most complex systems I have worked on. Much of the complexity is "hidden" from view, but that is part of the reason that it is so complex.

Last point, you did not wast two days, you spend them learning a little about this system and yours. There is the potential for you to learn more about your Linux operating system withe this as the challenge to overcome.

:)

Anyway, have a nice Sunday ...

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> you spend them learning a little about this system and yours. There is the potential for you to learn more about your Linux
> operating system withe this as the challenge to overcome.

The only thing I actually learned is where to upload a single test perl script and return a simple "hello world" message. While I technically DID learn something, it's pretty useless and I'm not any closer to achieving the results I wanted :(

Second point is that I don't have a Linux OS, I'm using windows, but the server that I rent space on DOES run Linux (FreeBSD I think). I learned that I CAN telnet into the server, but I cannot do anything beyond login/password, since none of the Dos commands I know work on Linux.....again, I DID learn something, but I am not any closer to achieving the results I wanted.

> it helped that I have some small skill in that, and can figure things out based upon my time as a systems engineer.

I'm thinking that might be part of the problem, we're not all System Engineer's or even close....I majored in Journalism, and the first thing you learn is to write on a sixth grade level because the majority of people are not college grads, much less Systems Engineer's.

Like the telnet part.....maybe that wasn't mentioned because the author figured this was common knowledge? I don't know, I just know that I'm not a SE, nor am I a Linux users, and I feel that is a pretty important part that was omitted or forgotten.


Anyway.....I know I bitch a lot, but Dynamic Signatures have become really popular in the Nuke/phpBB Community, and I think the ability to add your personal SETI information to your own Dynamic Signature would go a long way in bringing users to SETI......and since I'm not a coder, all I can do is goad you guys into working harder or making the process simplier.

Not to mention I'm a forum moderator @ Nukecops.com, the largest spot on the web for Nuke support and resources. With 25857 registered members, and an average of 50 new users a day......if you guys can help me get this working, I can, without a doubt, give it some major exposure.

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Well, I made it to the parse.pl file...... trying to figure out how to execute it......

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Can one of you guys PLEASE show me your parse.pl file? There has got to be something I'm missing here.

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> Can one of you guys PLEASE show me your parse.pl file? There has got to be
> something I'm missing here.

An updated version that I use is [url=http://www.funkymonkey.org/boinc/import.pl]here<A>. Fixes an issue with team description imports, handles the nested host info in the user.xml, and user info in the team.xml, etc.

Just replace the '--something--' values with your information. Change the url and file names to the project you're downloading for. (This one is setup for the pirates@home xml.)

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