Drew Burden

This tool was on my old MySpace Toys section back on Nedrub.com. I have since moved it here and released the PHP source code under a Creative Commons license. If you are using the tool from my site I would appreciate a link back to www.drewburden.com. If you wish to incorporate this code into another project or build upon it, you must follow the directives in the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license, which means you HAVE to link to me and you HAVE to share your code. If you are a webmaster and are interested in hosting a mirror of this tool on your own site, please contact me (drew@drewburden.com) for details.

People who Use This Tool:
If you make use of MySpaceDP, email me (drew@drewburden.com) and I’ll link to you.

This tool works wonderfully with the HTML Live MySpace Friends Generator!
MySpaceDP can be found in use on TrainCodes.com

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Ever wanted to make a custom friends list or Top <whatever> on your profile, but didn’t want to worry about keeping up with your friends’ default pictures, especially if they were changed or deleted? Worry no more. This tool gives you a way to put one image tag in your profile or page and it will always match your friend’s default picture.

Here’s how to do it:

Visit someone’s profile by clicking their picture on your friends list. When it loads, look at what you see in the address bar of your browser. For example, if you were looking at Tom’s profile, you would see

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=6221

Get the number after the "friendid" in the address bar and give it to this site as shown:

http://apps.drewburden.com/myspacedp/6221.jpg

That address will always be his default picture! Replace the "6221" with any MySpace user’s ID. You can place these addresses in an <img> tag on your profile, blog, or web site.

New Features!
In Version 2.0 of MySpaceDP, I added support for small, medium, and large pictures. You can specify which one you want, or not specify a size to get the default medium sized image.

Small
http://apps.drewburden.com/myspacedp/small/6221.jpg
MySpace uses this size for friends lists, Top Friends, and default pics beside comments.
Medium
http://apps.drewburden.com/myspacedp/medium/6221.jpg OR http://apps.drewburden.com/myspacedp/6221.jpg

MySpace uses this size for picture index thumbnails and your own default picture on your profile.
Large
http://apps.drewburden.com/myspacedp/large/6221.jpg
MySpace only uses this size for the full-size images in View More Pictures.

FriendID vs. MySpace Name
Version 5.0 introduced the ability to use one’s MySpace name instead of their FriendID. For example, if your friend’s MySpace URL was www.myspace.com/friend, and their FriendID was 374363, you could use either http://apps.drewburden.com/myspacedp/374363.jpg or http://apps.drewburden.com/myspacedp/friend.jpg. Both would work!

PNG Support
MySpaceDP 5.1 finally supports PNG images.

URL Changes
MySpace changed their image URL scheme yet again, prompting the release of MySpaceDP 6.0. The change was very minor, but there’s a nice chunk of new code (read: dirty hack) to handle it.

Profile Code Changes
MySpace slightly changed up some profile code, resulting in the bugfix releases of MySpaceDP 6.3 through 6.6.

Profile 2.0
MySpace released Profile 2.0 spurring the release of MySpaceDP 7.0 which has support for it. Minor changes to both profile versions prompted bugfix releases 7.1 through 7.3.

View the CC-licensed source code of this tool.