Feb. 26, 2010
Google has removed the Random Signature option from Labs this week. The feature is not longer supported. The links below can be used to supply a RSS feed to your website or iGoogle page.
(12/22/2008) New PHP code available here: http://wadesword.org/Blog/?p=233
I worked on a classic ASP page today that will create a RSS feed for Gmail’s Random Signature feature to display a random quote. This new feature is located in the Labs section of Gmail under settings. Once you turn this feature on, you can add this link on your main settings page:
(Removed use PHP link above) http://wadewb.com/WB/RSS/quotes/feed.asp
The feed above is viewable in FireFox and Safari, but not IE.
The code grabs 10 random quotes from a file with about 300 quotes and tries to create 10 RSS feed items. Gmail currently has a limit of 96 characters, so the code ignores any quotes that will be over 96 characters. This currently averages between 5-7 good quotes.
Once you add this to Gmail, you have to compose an email, discard that email, then compose another one, before the quote will show up on the bottom of the new email.
Here is the default quote feed that Gmail uses, in case you would like to switch back:
http://www.brainyquote.com/link/quotefu.rss
Source Code for the example is here:
http://wadewb.com/WB/code/files/RandomQuoteFeed.zip
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12 thoughts on “Gmail Labs Random Signature”
Dude, that would be awesome if you could share that with me. Thanks!
Dude, that would be awesome if you could share that with me. Thanks!
Could you e-mail me the code?
Could you e-mail me the code?
Thanks for the Code Example.<br><br>a.p.r. pillai<br>www.msaccesstips.com
Thanks for the Code Example.<br><br>a.p.r. pillai<br>www.msaccesstips.com
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Awesome! First quote was H.G. Wells. Cool my friend. Brainy Quotes just gave me two of the same quote over and over again from Joan Rivers and Bob Hope. Lame. Thank you!!! 😉
Awesome! First quote was H.G. Wells. Cool my friend. Brainy Quotes just gave me two of the same quote over and over again from Joan Rivers and Bob Hope. Lame. Thank you!!! 😉
Drew, Thanks!
Drew, Thanks!