[php] Text in Images

[ninjakannon]

Hi,

I've created a small script which creates an image with some text on. I can change a few things on this image, but not the font of the text in it, or the font size. Now, just to clarify, I want the font to be one loaded in from a .ttf file in the directory that my php file is in; I'm using arial.ttf as a test.

Here's my code so far:

<?php

// Recieve vars and up them into variables
$t = $_GET['text']; // Text string
$h = $_GET['height']; // Height of background
$w = $_GET['width']; // Width of background
$x = $_GET['x']; // X position of text
$y = $_GET['y']; // Y position of text

// Create an image at the size defined in the vars
$im = @imagecreate($w, $h);

// Set background colour to green
$bc = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 255, 0);

// Set text colour to red
$tc = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 0, 0);

// Write the text string into an image
// (resource image, font, x, y, string, text colour)
imagestring($im, 5, $x, $y,  $t, $tc);

// Output Image
header("Content-type: image/png");
imagepng($im);

imagedestroy($im);

?>

You can see the results of this here

Thanks for any help.

[Musicman]

Hi,

go to www.php.net and read about imageloadfont and imagepsloadfont

Musicman

[ninjakannon]

OK, thanks for that.

I didn't use either of those in the end, instead I found "imagettftext" which someone had referenced in the comments on imageloadfont (I think it was that one).

It now works great with a whole 2 fonts that I've uploaded.