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eremote is the source for the button style and eremote2 is the source for the “imood” style icon. You’ll also need the font image and the icons of course. For simplicity I have just created variables within the file to change the colours of the graphic, versus having it be via the URL. These files need to be placed within the existing and working install directory of eMotif.

Again, basically all I did was make Bill Zeller’s script work with eMotif… I’m sure there are lots of things in it that I wrote that could be improved, but all I wanted was to make it functional and so far it seems that way.

It’s funny how random surfing of the internet can lead to brilliant ideas, haha. I started looking at the source code of that button making script (you know the one meme-izing the internet with its deadly deprecation) and realized that I could rather easily adapt that to expand eMotif. I’ve been wanting, for rather a long time actually, to be able to use my eMotif mood on a different server, one that I don’t have php or mysql access on (basically use it like iMood). Well, I have finally succeeded, at least in an unfinished rough and dirty kind of way. I have it able to select the mood and print it out on the button and select the id number of the mood icon(face) and select it from the graphical “list” of sorts. I need to shrink down the size of the icon graphics though… which means I need to find the original illustrator file that I’ve not messed with in, well… considering I stopped eMotif development when my dad died, about six months, almost seven. I’m pleased now, though, that I know how to actually make it work and it is actually working! All you need to do is write an image tag with php script as the img src, and bingo, it creates the button with your current mood and mood icon.

Update, I actually have it cleaned up pretty nicely… but hours upon hours away from being finished.

And another update, simply because I’m manic and couldn’t sleep without finishing this. I found the illustrator file, resized and squished it together all nicely and did all the math to make it actually work… so, yay!

This brilliant fellow wrote the core of the code, in case you’ve somehow managed to miss the meme-izing all over the place about it.

And… now a bit more imood like… tiny and blends into the background:

Lastnight/yesterday afternoon I decided it was time to do a bit of tree trimming and pruning. Our orchard has had major branches going everywhere to the point you couldn’t even walk around the house on that side anymore, so that’s been corrected. Lots of other trees had quite a few dead branches and were too low hanging, so I’ve corrected that too. Of course I’m too lazy to actually pick up the branches, so they’re strewn across the lawn, hahah… it does indeed look like a tornado hit, ripping branches off the trees everywhere.

Anyway, so yes, this is version 12. Nevermind the halfassed thing I had up yesterday. I’ve not yet looked at it in windows, but Safari and Mozilla render it just fine. Mac IE does some sort of weird font size craziness with the brainfeed box, so it sort of bursts out of the boundary when there is PLENTY of room, but whatever. Anyway, the key idea here is if it doesn’t look right in your browser, then your browser is busted. The screenshot of it in winIE looks just fine though, so all good. The mac problem is a css bug in the browser that I’m not in the mood to work around at the moment.

As always, haha, I coded this with pico through SSH. The images were modified using Gimp and uploaded through SCP. The code is xhtml compliant, with the obvious exception of the guestbook, simply because it’s such a mess to begin with.