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Blockchain Quote-of-the-day Bot

This bot does:

  1. Randomly picks one bg image from templates folder
  2. Randomly picks one quote from quotes.txt
  3. Mix text and bg image gernerating a new PNG file under generated folder
  4. Optionally sends it to an email.

Setup:

  1. Change SMTP with your server configuration.
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->SMTPAuth   	= true;
$mail->SMTPSecure 	= "tls";
$mail->Port		    = "587";
$mail->Host       	= "smtp.<YOUR_SERVER>.com";
$mail->Username   	= "<USERNAME>";
$mail->Password   	= "<PASSWORD>";
$mail->SMTPDebug 	= 2;
$mail->Debugoutput 	= 'html';
$mail->Subject 		= '<YOUR_SUBJECT>';
$mailFrom 		    = '<MAIL_FROM>';
$mailFromName 		= '<MAIL_FROM_NAME>';
$mailTo 		    = '<MAIL_TO>';
$mailToName 		= '<MAIL_TO_NAME>';
  1. Configure cron:
  • For publishing 5 to 5 days, at 10am:
# 0 10 */5 * * cd <path-to-text-to-image>/text-to-image/; sleep 1;  /usr/bin/php ./text-to-image.php 1>/dev/null
2>/dev/null/*
  1. Configure an account on IFTTT for filtering your email [$mailTo] by subject and publishing the image on your Facebook fanpage.
  • Better if you create a dedicated email for that.

Tips

  • We use 800x800px PNG, but it could be a 512x512px.
  • Pixabay can be a very good bg image repository
  • Quote format is: quote;author