Update to MySpace Profile Tracker Pepper

I love mint and all the pepper for it but I was having trouble with the Myspace Profile Tracker by John Baker mainly just that it wasn’t tracking anything.

So I began to investigate.

I went to directly load the image and found it was prompting me to download the png. Meaning the .htaccess file wasn’t working (I assumed) so I made some modifications.

Instead of having the .htaccess file treat the PNG file as PHP I renamed the PHP file to ‘register.png.php’ and replaced my .htaccess file with this:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase    /mint/pepper/johnbarker/myspace/
RewriteRule ^register.png$          register.png.php  [QSA]

I uploaded the file logo.png into that Myspace directory so I could have an image display and also double as a link to my blog.

Then I added this to the bottom of my newly renamed register.png.php file

$image =  imagecreatefrompng('logo.png');
header('Content-type: image/png') ;
ImagePNG($image) ;
ImageDestroy($image) ;
exit ;

This way loading the image register.png would redirect (via the Rewrite rules in the .htacces file) to register.png.php which would save all the information to mint, then load the logo.png file and output it. Pretty cool.

And it still uses the same image tag as the original readme.

<img src="http://www.ninedays.org/mint/pepper/johnbarker/myspace/register.png" alt="" />

Now it works and tracks visitors so well! There may have been an easier modification but this one works and that’s all that matters for me.

Tagged as: htaccess, mint, myspace, PHP

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