hit counter images, how is it done?

Hi,

you guys all know that hit counter image you see on ebay listings? Any idea how they create that image?

Like: http://www.andale.com/corp/products/counters/counters_original.html

is it done on the fly somehow or what? it seems to be a single graphic image so its not like they are merging a bunch of images together to form a number.....

 

yea, it's on the fly. They get the number, create the image for each, then "glue" them together. It's not that hard if you know how to handle images in php

 

i see so its done on the 'server side' as oppose to html'ing the images together...ok thanks.

 

look at gd extension for php ... gd is a lib with you can generate this images

Regards

 

Image magik for php ? Did you try that ?

Regards
Adrian

 

I'll code it for you for 10$

 

i'm not shure but i think its like
1. the php counter source that sends a number to the counter site that generates an image like www(dot)cooltext(dot)com