monkdiscuss
jcwren
<p><font size=-1><i>featuring much gratuitous linking...</i></font></p>
<p>Are you looking for <a href="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0080716">fame</a>? Do you want <a href="http://tinymicros.com/pm/?Goto=KudraWDF">fortune</a>? Need <a href="http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=vroom">XP</a>? Want to impress a <a href="http://russianbrides.com">potential significant other</a>? Here's how you can get all these! And do it all with <a href="http://www.perl.org">Perl</a>, no less.</p>
<p>As many of you know, the <a href="http://tinymicros.com/pm">stats pages</a> are written in <a href="http://www.php.net">PHP</a>. There are several <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/congress.htm">pages</a> that produce wonderfully <a href="http://www.crayola.com/index.cfm?hasFlash=false">colored</a> <a href="http://www.abanet.org/">bar</a> charts, the most important being your <a href="http://tinymicros.com/pm/index.php?goto=PlotChart&nodeid=26179&start=0">personal XP change chart</a>. The code for the charts is 3rd party stuff, and pretty <a href="http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?genusname=Pomoxis&speciesname=nigromaculatus">crappy</a><!-- OK, I cheated on the spelling for that link -->. It incorrectly handles <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=65202">negative XP</a>, and columns don't always <a href="http://www.scalebuyersguide.com/">scale</a> correctly.</p>
<p>[jcwren|I'm] looking for someone to write a <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=Code%20Catacombs">script</a> to produce nearly identical (but correct) <a href="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/GD/MVERB/GDGraph-1.23.readme">graphs</a> to replace the defective <a href="http://php.net">PHP</a> graphs. <a href="http://this.com/">This</a> needs to be done because the <a href="http://tinymicros.com">server</a> that serves the <a href="http://tinymicros.com/pm">stats pages</a> needs to be <a href="http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/7-3_personal.html">upgraded</a>, and the <a href="http://vhconsultants.com">graphing package</a> fails to compile under the latest versions of <a href="http://www.php.net">PHP</a>.</p>
<p>[jcwren|I'm] happy to face the fact that [jcwren|I] <a href="http://www.kirby.com">suck</a> at <a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/">graphics</a> (<a href="http://www.catholic.org/">hell</a>, most people would say <a href="http://tinymicros.com">web page design</a>, too). [jcwren|I] don't have have the <a href="http://realjob.net/">bandwidth</a> available to <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/make/make.html">make</a> these changes, nor the skills to make <a href="http://www.bikeworld.com/trend.htm">graphs</a> that look good. [jcwren|I] need your help.</p>
<p>You'll get your name on the <a href="http://tinymicros.com/pm">stats pages</a> (in the <a href="http://tinymicros.com/pm?goto=Credits">Credits</a> section), and a <a href="http://www.everything2.com">node</a> in this [id://171725|thread] for people to [voting/experience system|vote] you up. You'll have [jcwren|my] undying <a href="http://www.epinions.com/content_12844371588">gratitude</a> (with that, and $0.79<a href="http://www.treasury.gov/">USD</a>, you can get a cup of <a href="http://www.coffee.com">coffee</a> at <a href="http://www.mcdonalds.com/">McDonalds</a>), and make lots of people <a href="http://www.prozac.com">happy</a> that the graphs finally work <a href="http://www.rnc.org/">right</a>.</p>
<p>[jcwren|I'll] provide the existing <a href="http://php.net">PHP</a> code for that section, along with a <a href="http://www.snapshot.com/">snapshot</a> of a portion of the <a href="http://tinymicros.com/pm">stats</a> <a href="http://mysql.com">database</a>. <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=if%20statements">If</a> you're a <a href="http://perlmonk.org">perlmonk.org</a> account holder, you can use the <a href="http://mysql.com">MySQL</a> database there, and [jcwren|I'll] <a href="http://search.cpan.org/doc/ANDK/CPAN-1.61/lib/CPAN.pm">install</a> any <a href="http://cpan.org">modules</a> you need for testing. [jcwren|I'll] also create a custom copy of the <a href="http://tinymicros.com/pm">stats pages</a> that link to your script to pull the charts.</p>
<p>If you're seriously interested and have the skills, please, [jcwren|I'd] love your <a href="http://help.com">help</a>. If multiple people volunteer, [jcwren|I'm] at a bit of a loss how to handle that. Best functionality? First finished? Dunno. You can <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/?node=chatterbox+faq&type=document">/msg</a> [jcwren|me] for information, or follow up in the [id://171725|this thread].</p>
<p>--Chris</p>
<p><center>e-mail <a href="mailto:jcwren@jcwren.com">jcwren</a></center></p>