A random evening's coding that lets you put a pony in your placeholder. Service available online at placeponi.es. Can, of course, be repurposed to create placeholder images of any sort—ponies not required.
Source code is provided as-is, with no guarantees as to quality or support.
URL parameters can be written in any order and are delimited by a forward slash (/). Numerical values must be defined in order of width, height, and variant; aka, the first integer is assumed to be width, the second height, and third variant. They do not need to be grouped, so URLs like http://placeponi.es/400/g/300/regen/3
are perfectly valid.
http://placeponi.es/400/300
Generate a standard image 400 pixels wide and 300 pixels tall. Both values are capped between 1 and 5000 pixels.
http://placeponi.es/400/300/1
Add a third number to use multiple images with the same dimensions. Values are capped between 0 and 9, allowing for up to 10 variants.
http://placeponi.es/400/300/g
Add /g/
anywhere in the URL to make the image grayscale.
http://placeponi.es/400/300/regen
Add /regen/
anywhere in the URL to replace the existing image of this type.
- Redesign reporting panel.
- Add trial. Script now redirects to a generated image file instead of reading it into the current page.
- Re-enable logging for images with a referrer of placeponi.es.
- Refactor basically everything.
- Now supports generating images larger than the source image.
- Now supports generating more that one image with the same dimensions.
- Now supports putting URL parameters in (almost) any order.
- Added simple (and very unfinished) logging page.
- Fix issue caused by there being no referrer information available.
- Simplify how
img.php
grabs URL parameters.
- Add referrer tracking.
- Initial release.