It is fun to see how the Firefox initiative is growing. Years back, I had done a small hack which will bring the download counter status from the
SpreadFirefox website.
I just checked that code again today. Surprisingly, it still works.
Want the code? Here it is.
PHP Code:
/* * admin [at] pchelp.in Display number of FireFox downloads graphically. * */
// It is a png image - not HTML
header("Content-type: image/png");
$buf = file("http://feeds.spreadfirefox.com/downloads/firefox.xml?ff=1");
//Whats in between?
$replace = Array("<description>","</description>");
$my_count = trim(str_replace($replace,'',$buf[9]));
//Put this font in the same directory. I am using Arial-Rounded
$font = "ARLRDBD.TTF";
//Base image. Get it from http://pchelp.in/images/misc/3.png
//and use it to create the image.
$im = imagecreatefrompng('images/misc/3.png');
//Change to any color you want.
$grey = imagecolorallocate($im, 66,66,66);
imagettftext($im, 10, 0, 44, 22, $grey, $font,$my_count." Downloads");
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
You can use your own font and base image. Let me know how you are using this
07-11-2009, 05:10 AM
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