10.06.16 UPDATE

* Fixed browser caching for badges. Now your browser will cache every badge for one hour, so it won't have to fetch them from the server on every single page load. This should make forum threads with lots of badge-users load a little quicker.

* Updated the CC badges so that they'll display the average PPD during the contest instead of the current scores, since the contest is now over.

Badges Down? My sidebar one is gone and my forums one not showing.

Server seems to have gone down for some reason this morning. I'm looking into it as we speak.

Thanks for the update.

thnx for the guide!

how can i get more total points and less WU ? can be ?

Thanks this is awesome :)

I would love to know the code behind these badges planetarian. Are you using a PHP script to render these out or something else entirely? Would you mind sharing with me the details? Thanks!

jflankford

Since he does not login but periodically. Might be best to PM him, as a
lot of people have a "PM" notification email sent to them.

Ha ha, yes, I see that he last logged in in June :) Thanks for the tip.

EVIIILJ

I would love to know the code behind these badges planetarian. Are you using a PHP script to render these out or something else entirely? Would you mind sharing with me the details? Thanks!

The folding badge system is a project I undertook a year or two ago just for kicks. I never cared much for the existing badges from other sites, finding their design to be lacking (I have a graphics design + programming background; I'm a weirdo). I wanted something smoother, minimalist, yet still customizeable, and none of the existing systems really appealed to me. So, I wrote my own custom badge system from scratch, giving folks a (hopefully) more attractive and personalizeable alternative, to give something back to the community when I was far more active than I am now.
 
It wasn't always as customizeable as it is now. Originally, the only option was black background, white text, EVGA logo. You gave it your user ID and that was it. I continued to work on it, adding the option to colorize text, then the background. Icons came next, then backgrounds, etc... Eventually it became what it is today.
 
I wrote the code behind the badges from scratch in PHP, using MySQL, CURL, and GD. I don't plan on releasing the source code for it, at least partially because I like being able to maintain a certain sort of consistency for everyone using it, but also because the fewer badge providers there are, the less stress is placed on the stat hosting sites -- and at least I can be certain that if someone writes and hosts their own, they're serious enough to not have to worry about.
 
Of course, it's also partially because, in retrospect, the code quality of the badge system project isn't something I feel I can hold to my present-day standards. ^^;;
 
That said, I might be willing to discuss/share specific bits of the codebase if there's anything in particular you'd like to learn about. Playing with GD for programmatically building images is especially fun.

just testing.. my new sig!! :D

Hoping to join the team soon!

I made the team! !
 

Awesome dude, redid my badge using the badge generator, awesome great work! Will you be adding anything more in the future to this?

 Thanks again. I just redid mine.