Re: [PROPOSAL] Package 'ImageText'

On 10 Oct 2003 at 10:43, Tobias Schlitt wrote: > <zitiere wer="Pierre-Alain Joye"> > > >> I don't know, what the real purpose of Image_Transform is. Should > >> this get a general class for image manipulations or (as the > >> describtion says) a wrapper around several image technologies in > >> PHP? > > > > Image_Transform provides a lot of common methods using a lot of > > backends (gd/2, imagick console and ext, netpbm,...). It provides > > also a simple text function for all backends. > > That's what I thought why ImageText should stay alone. It only > supports GD2 until now and I don't think I'll add support for other > backends. It's functionality is very GD specific. I think aiming at GD2 only is okay (for now). But I see too few common ground to merge it with the aims of Image_Transform. So maybe Image_GDTools or similar would be an idea? > > But I do not care that much if you do not use it as I already use my > > own code for texts alignments ;-) > > >> I think a class wrapping and extending the GD2 features has a > >> strict other goal and could cooperate better with ImageText. > > > Create a wrapper around GD2 functions only to provide a OO interface > > sounds useless to me (to do not say silly ;) ). OO is nice, but > > well, if you plan to create an interface that does not add anything > > to the native functions then you only add something to slow down the > > whole thing. > > I fully agree with you about OO! ;=) The idea of my "wrapper class" > was to add some nice little features like setBackground(), addBoder(), > etc. for general image handling (to create an image in OO way) and > things like figure adding (eg. addStar(), addBuble(), or something > else). This would integrate perfectly with ImageText. I imagine > something as follows: > > $img = new GD2Image(200, 300); > $img->setBackground(255, 255, 255); > $img->addBorder(...); > > $text = new ImageText("Foo Bar", array("width" => 50, "height" > => > 50)); $text->measurize(); > > $img->addText($text, 100, 20); > $img->addStar(...); > > What do you think about that? Sounds a nice idea to me, that surely needs to be worked out further. But inside this class we could even implement features like "round broders" or other things that are a bit more difficult to write by hand for regular PHP-coders. Stefan