agentbristowart: Introducing: MoodRing for LJ

Callie Darling (

agentbristow86) wrote in

agentbristowart,
@ 2008-03-24 18:45:00

Current mood:	accomplished
Current music:	Brode on the piano :)
Entry tags:	*moodring for lj

Introducing: MoodRing for LJ
Huzzah!!! My moodtheme display generator is now complete! *skips around room like a 4-year-old*

So this is actually something that's been in the making for about a year now. Last spring I started fiddling around with the idea and the code, life happened and I subsequently abandoned it, and then after the end-of-year holiday madness subsided, I decided I was going to plod through as much of my many unfinished projects as I could, starting with this one.

Simply put, it's a form you can fill out that when submitted will create a lovely full preview of your moodtheme, complete with a title and credit line and customizable settings.

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agentbristowart

Deepest thanks to euterpeslullaby who graciously allowed me to use her moodtheme as an example!
If you like this moodtheme, you can find it here @ crackified.

Sydney's Aliases
by euterpeslullaby

accomplished	aggravated	amused	angry	annoyed	anxious
apathetic	artistic	awake	bitchy	blah	blank
bored	bouncy	busy	calm	cheerful	chipper
cold	complacent	confused	contemplative	content	cranky
crappy	crazy	creative	crushed	curious	cynical
depressed	determined	devious	dirty	disappointed	discontent
distressed	ditzy	dorky	drained	drunk	ecstatic
embarrassed	energetic	enraged	enthralled	envious	exanimate
excited	exhausted	flirty	frustrated	full	geeky
giddy	giggly	gloomy	good	grateful	groggy
grumpy	guilty	happy	high	hopeful	horny
hot	hungry	hyper	impressed	indescribable	indifferent
infuriated	intimidated	irate	irritated	jealous	jubilant
lazy	lethargic	listless	lonely	loved	melancholy
mellow	mischievous	moody	morose	naughty	nauseated
nerdy	nervous	nostalgic	numb	okay	optimistic
peaceful	pensive	pessimistic	pissed off	pleased	predatory
productive	quixotic	recumbent	refreshed	rejected	rejuvenated
relaxed	relieved	restless	rushed	sad	satisfied
scared	shocked	sick	silly	sleepy	sore
stressed	surprised	sympathetic	thankful	thirsty	thoughtful
tired	touched	uncomfortable	weird	working	worried

MoodRing 1.0 © CallaLily 2008

I'm relatively new to *real* PHP coding, and this is my very first "script" of sorts, but I'm hoping to add more customization features to this in the future if people want them. I would really love any feedback on this that people have-- good, bad, whatever-- just be kind, please! :)

So here's the script (again)-- complete with full instructions. :D

Please leave ALL feedback on THIS post.

x-posted to fandom_moods and moodtheme

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	guest_age 2008-03-26 04:47 am UTC (link)
	Thank you for posting this! This seems like it will be an absolutely lovely tool and I definitely will use it in the future, if I ever finish that moodtheme I've been working on for months. :) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	agentbristow86 2008-03-26 09:11 am UTC (link)
	You're very welcome. :D Thanks for your kind words! I know what you mean. I currently have THREE unfinished moodthemes-- I keep getting worn out with it and have to walk away for a while. Plus I've got a short attention span when it comes to projects, so... :D It's actually rather amazing that I was able to get myself to finish MoodRing, haha! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	goshdarnheck 2008-03-26 04:59 am UTC (link)
	This is a marvelous idea! This'll be quite handy in the future. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	agentbristow86 2008-03-26 09:03 am UTC (link)
	Thank you! :D I know it seems lame but when you've worked so hard on something, any word of approval is SO nice to hear. Thanks for taking the time to comment! :D (Reply to this) (Parent)

angelswilliam
2008-03-26 07:15 am UTC (link)

This is cool! You should know, though, that the 2 previews you posted to

_fandom_icons_ now have white boxes that read "HI! I'M STEALING BANDWIDTH FROM RED-UMBRELLA.ORG! PLEASE FEEL FREE TO HARASS ME!" where the previews should be. You might want to switch the code around before the mods of the community delete your post.

Not trying to harass as the boxes suggest; just trying to help. *hugs*

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	agentbristow86 2008-03-26 07:20 am UTC (link)
	I don't actually remember posting to _fandom_icons_. Could you link the post? Edited at 2008-03-26 07:20 am UTC (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	angelswilliam 2008-03-26 07:26 am UTC (link)
	http://community.livejournal.com/fandom_moods/507731.html This is interesting. The pix are showing up in the post in the actual community but not on my flist. Let me reload my flist page.... Well, it's showing up, now. Go figure. Sorry to bother you! conks forehead (Reply to this) (Parent)

	angelswilliam 2008-03-26 07:28 am UTC (link)
	Oh. Duh. I just saw the community name in the link I gave you. Sorry about that! I am going through things to relax in bed before going to sleep. Maybe I should just read fic, huh? conks forehead again Really, really sorry! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

agentbristow86
2008-03-26 08:34 am UTC (link)

Fic is *always* a good idea! :D

Don't feel bad. I figured out what happened. The images are hosted on my server, but a little ways back I decided to prevent hotlinking via .htaccess. Thing is, I have to go in and list every single site I want to allow hotlinking to, which of course included my personal journals and the comms I'd posted to, but not anyplace else. So when you tried to view my images from your f-list (which is located at YOUR journal)... it wouldn't allow it. When you viewed them at the comm, though, they were allowed. Then the images were cached either on the site or in your browser which made them appear on your f-list. I think, though, if you tried to reload your f-list it would go back to the hotlinking message.

Basically, this is kinda the final straw with the .htaccess blocking for me. I think I'm just going to take off all the restrictions, monitor my bandwidth and traffic, and only ADD offending sites to a BLOCK list.

Sorry if this isn't coherent. My brain is mush and this whole thing is giving me a headache, haha.

But THANKS for letting me know about the problem! I hadn't thought about the f-list issue until now (mostly cuz I just like to visit the journals themselves and don't really use the f-list feature myself). I'm gonna take off all the restrictions now. :D

Edited at 2008-03-26 08:43 am UTC

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angelswilliam
2008-03-26 10:45 pm UTC (link)

I never really used the flist thing--just the notification e-mails thing--either. I was just doing so last night because I was on my laptop and didn't want to have more than one window open at once because the laptop has lower memory capacity.

Glad I helped you discover a problem. Usually I cause problems because I get confused easily. It's nice to be on the other side of the coin for once!

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	agentbristow86 2008-03-26 08:49 am UTC (link)
	I gotta say, I'm really glad you were kind enough to drop a message before reporting me, since it would've thoroughly sucked to get kicked out for hotlinking to my own server! ;D (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	angelswilliam 2008-03-26 10:40 pm UTC (link)
	No, I said I wouldn't have reported you because that's not the kind of thing I take the time to tattle about. Sorry if I didn't make that clear enough. I deleted the comment, though, because it revealed something that I didn't want revealed about my identity. I just hope I did so in time. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	agentbristow86 2008-03-26 11:23 pm UTC (link)
	All I meant was, I'm really glad you're obviously NOT the kind of person who shoots first and asks questions later. Someone else might have just pulled the trigger, which WOULD have sucked. But seriously, don't worry about any of this. You helped me uncover a problem, and for that I am very thankful! :D (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sepiastars 2008-03-26 12:58 pm UTC (link)
	I think this looks awesome, great work! And thanks for sharing it with us ^.^ (Reply to this) (Thread)

	agentbristow86 2008-03-26 11:40 pm UTC (link)
	You're very welcome! I just wanted to say your graphics are fab and I LOVE your layout header. Breathtaking. :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	library_of_sex 2008-03-26 02:36 pm UTC (link)
	I've been wondering how people make the lovely previews for their moodthemes! Wow, this is an excellent tool! Thanks! (Reply to this) (Thread)

agentbristow86
2008-03-26 11:57 pm UTC (link)

Yeah to my knowledge there aren't any other scripts out there yet for this, so I think a lot of the people who've done displays have had to just do it all by hand. (As if doing the whole moodtheme itself wasn't time-consuming. So much work! And all for us, the greedy-- but grateful!-- downloaders.) So hopefully this will take a small part of the work out of it.

BTW, love your icon. Very cute. :D

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	library_of_sex 2008-03-27 01:44 am UTC (link)
	Damn, all the praise for my CB icon really makes me wish I'd made it! I've only made one moodtheme so far (and not a very good one at that). I think I'll try reposting it in my journal using your preview sometime and see how it looks! Thanks again for the handy code! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	library_of_sex 2008-04-28 12:36 am UTC (link)
	Just wanted to let you know that I used your lovely code yesterday, and it worked out perfectly! Thanks again! (Reply to this)

	killerstatue 2009-04-01 02:54 am UTC (link)
	thankyou! (Reply to this)

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