Re: Creating Images (.GIF) with PHP from Text?

"Jason Caldwell" <jason@thinkingman.org> wrote in message news:20020915033807.68895.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > How can I create a dynamic image with PHP? > > Here's what I want to do; I have a counter (kinda) on my website.. and this > counter appears in a certain font -- which most computer systems will not > have on their systems. > > So -- I want my PHP script to take a variable value; say 34,000 and save > that as a .GIF or .JPG with a Blue Background, and White OCR A Extended > 12point non-aliased Font. With the word "Counter: " in-front of the value. > > Is this possible with PHP (I hope...!) Or, is there a *command line* > utility out there for the Win32 platform that does this? Yes Jason it possible if you have GD library (http://www.boutell.com/gd/) . but i'm not sure if it had in the Win32 platform. For the tutorial read this article http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/rasmus19990124.php3. With my simple code but with unix host and use TTF font. (read another function at http://th2.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php) <?PHP header ("Content-type: image/png"); $im = imagecreate (100, 20); $bg = imagecolorallocate ($im, 0, 0, 255); $white = imagecolorallocate ($im, 255, 255, 255); imagettftext ($im, 12, 0, 5, 14, $white, "/home/your_directoty/fonts/ARIAL.TTF", "Counter:34000"); imagepng ($im); imagedestroy ($im); ?> PS. Yes GIF is removed from gd because of copyright protect but you can use PNG. ?> > Thanks > Jason > > >