GiFEED takes data from RSS feeds and creates animated gif files. I originally made this sometime in 2007 and completely forgot about it. It’s not the cleanest bit of code, but works. I may improve upon it in the future and will place a log of changes here if I do.
GiFEED requires the GIFEncoder PHP class. It’s included in the zip.
Setup:
- Download the files and copy to a directory on your server.
- Specify values for the $rss_x variables at the top of the file.
- Provide the script with a font file to use when generating the gif. Drop it in the same directory as the script.
- Make sure that the directory containing GiFEED and “frames” is writable.
- Set up a cron job to execute gifeed.php on a regular basis. For most, every 30-60min is more than fine.
You can then refer to the generated gif file, anywhere you’d normally use one, after the gifeed.php file is executed for the first time. I place one at the bottom of my email signature as a link to 100781.
Change log:
- 04:15:2007 – boom, i’m here. let’s party
- 01:23:2010 – cleaned up and ready for some action. created some variables to make it easier to set up.
Feel free to do whatever you want with GiFEED and please shoot me an email if you happen to use it.
