sig not responding?

hey

i have my sig set up on another forum.

it shows up but isnt displaying the most recently played tracks.


i have my own webspace but have found myself lost in the tutorials.

I have this same. Exact. Problem.

http://disgaea.spyderlake.com/images/Sigs/scob/scrobblersig.php

I just can't seem to figure out what's wrong. Mabye i have a chmod set up wrong?

Edit: Using the one by lozzd works fine it seems, but i'd like it on my own space since i'm too poor to donate and i wouldn't want to burden him anymore:

I have a similar problem ie the image wont refresh, though if i go manually to the url it does.

i think i know why it isnt refreshing. you have to link to the folder where the image is, so that it runs the index.php file every time you request the sig (which is a lot if you are visiting big forums)
i guess you guys refer to the .png sig, which can't (obviously) refresh itsself all the time because its an image file.
I know that on a lot of forums, you have to have a extension behind your imagefile (except here in last.fm)
mine works perfectly.
there should be some kind of way that the index.php gets updated every now and then, automatically, not manually.

Quoth Arty88:
i guess you guys refer to the .png sig, which can't (obviously) refresh itsself all the time because its an image file.


I never thought that people might do this.. but thinking about it now, it is possible that people think that they have to link to the cached image file. If you do that, then it'll never update, as the index.php or sig.php will never be called. You have to actually link to the index.php or sig.php files, acting as though they ARE the image. They output the image to a file purely for caching reasons so that they don't have to regenerate the image again for a couple of minutes. You should NOT use tags or <img> tags and put the cached image address in their. That's not how it works.

I just wrote that incase that is what people are doing, as it never occured to me that people may do this.

hmm...same problem for me now :(

how do i have to place the php script in my sig...?(vbulletin board)

for now i use http://....../index.php[/img.] (of course without dots) where index.php is the actual script...but it wont refresh itself automatically ?

Same thing is going on for me. I use FireFox and it never refreshes. I use:

{url=http://www.last.fm/user/collegepunk/?chartstyle=shabby2]{img]http://imagegen.last.fm/shabby2/recenttracks/collegepunk.gif[/img}[/url}

Just like it says too. Any idea's?

It seems to update at almost random times?