RE: [PHP] Writing text into images, and setting text size

Hi Dave, Take a look http://www.bestplace.biz/unittest/ttf/PrintImage.php ... and replace PrintImage.php with info.php in the URL to get the phpinfo. See the CONFIGURE COMMAND line for the phpinfo (at the very beginning): '--with-gd' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--with-ttf' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/lib' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr/local/lib' '--with-png-dir=/usr/local/lib' You might need to change /usr/local/lib according to your system configuration (this is a CentOS 4 box with DirectAdmin as the hosting control panel) and recompile PHP. However, before you run into an unnecessary mess... 1 - Add this line to the very beginning of the script and remove the code that outputs the image (all the "header" stuff and the "imagepng($im)" sentence): error_reporting(E_ALL); I guess you have already don that but just in case... If there's an error you should see it with E_ALL 2 - If you find out that the problem is definitely PHP, you'd better off using the provided upgrade methods of your hosting control panel, or a standard or custom script provided at the hosting control panel's website. That will make your life easier (For DirectAdmin, there's custombuild, for others... I don't know)... otherwise, you'll have to edit the configure script, and run ./configure, make and make install as usual (and troubleshoot as usual). Hope you get it working, :) Rob > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave M G [mailto:martin@autotelic.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 7:06 AM > To: Andrés Robinet > Cc: 'PHP List' > Subject: Re: [PHP] Writing text into images, and setting text size > > Rob, > > Thank you for responding. > > > Try the following: > > ... you load PrintImage.php into your browser and you'll get a nice > gray rectangle with the word "Works!" in the center of it. > > If you don't get that... then you have a problem that is not related > to path or to PHP per-se... > > Wow... thank you so much for providing that code to help me test my > environment. > > I ran your script - with the corrections you provided - and did not get > the text that says "Works!". > > I've checked with various fonts, and checked that they worked in > OpenOffice and other apps, so I don't think fonts are the problem. > > As for GD support, phpinfo() it says: > > GD Support enabled > GD Version 2.0 or higher > FreeType Support enabled > FreeType Linkage with freetype > FreeType Version 2.1.9 > T1Lib Support enabled > GIF Read Support enabled > GIF Create Support enabled > JPG Support enabled > PNG Support enabled > WBMP Support enabled > GetText Support enabled > > Am I missing a necessary module? > > > Hope this helps > > It helps very much. Thank you. > > -- > Dave M G > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php