Re: Looking for a particular script

> I once saw a php script that created graphics (buttons) by taking an image > and then pasting (overlaying) text in a font over the top. This script was > great for dynamically creating graphics for database queries and such. But > for the life of me I cannot find it again. I kind of stumbled across it when > I first found it, but I thought I would ask the list if they knew of the > said script and if there was somewhere I could get it again. > > I believe that the script could display the text in any true type font that > was avialable, as long as they were installed on the server. > > Any help would be great as I really need to create a series of images on the > fly via a script such as this. It's pretty trivial to do. For example, this would draw white text in the whatever.ttf font on the button.png background: Header("Content-type: image/png"); $font = "whatever.ttf"; $im = ImageCreateFromPNG("button.png"); $black = ImageColorAllocate($im,0,0,0); $white = ImageColorAllocate($im,255,255,255); ImageTTFText($im, 12, 0, 5, 14, $white, $font, $text); ImagePNG($im); You might want to add some logic to center the text. You are probably referring to a phpbuilder article I wrote on this ages ago: http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/rasmus19990124.php3 -Rasmus