Just a correction... Replace at the beginning of the script (I had some typos, while extracting the code from the original script) > $imW = 200; > $imH = 100; By this.. $imgW = 200; $imgH = 100; Regards, Rob Andrés Robinet | Lead Developer | BESTPLACE CORPORATION 5100 Bayview Drive 206, Royal Lauderdale Landings, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308 | TEL 954-607-4207 | FAX 954-337-2695 Email: info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx | MSN Chat: best@xxxxxxxxxxxxx | SKYPE: bestplace | Web: http://www.bestplace.biz | Web: http://www.seo-diy.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrés Robinet [mailto:agrobinet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 1:33 AM > To: 'Dave M G' > Cc: 'PHP List' > Subject: RE: Writing text into images, and setting text size > > I'm tempted to say that the problem is that the system is not finding > the font... you'd need to include the full path to the font (and it > must be readable for the user PHP runs on behalf). > > Try the following: > > Just for testing put the font and the script that generates the image > in the SAME directory, so let's say you have something like this: > > arial.ttf (<<-- I just copied it from my windows fonts folder) > PrintImage.php > > BOTH IN THE SAME DIRECTORY... > Then, the code for PrintImage.php would look like the following... > > <?php > /************************/ > /* Begin PrintImage.php */ > > // dirname(__FILE__) means "the full path to the directory where this > file <PrintImage.php> is sitting" > $fontFile = dirname(__FILE__).'/arial.ttf'; > > $imW = 200; > $imH = 100; > $im = imagecreatetruecolor($imgW, $imgH); > $bgColor = imagecolorallocate($im, 238, 239, 239); > $borderColor = imagecolorallocate($im, 208, 208, 208); > $textColor = imagecolorallocate($im, 46, 60, 31); > $whiteColor = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255); > $fontSize = 18; > $textAngle = 0; > $codeString = 'Works!'; > > // Print rectangle > imagefilledrectangle($im, 0, 0, $imgW, $imgH, $bgColor); > imagerectangle($im, 0, 0, $imW-1, $imH-1, $borderColor); > > // Print Text (Calculate Position) > $box = imagettfbbox($fontSize, $fontAngle, $fontFile, $codeString); > $x = (int)($imgW - $box[4]) / 2; > $y = (int)($imgH - $box[5]) / 2; > imagettftext($im, $fontSize, $fontAngle, $x, $y, $textColor, $fontFile, > $codeString); > > // Output... no caching > header("Content-type: image/png"); > header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate"); > header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT"); > imagepng($im); > > /* End PrintImage.php */ > /**********************/ > ?> > > Then you know what you do... 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... maybe it's a GD issue, or the > font is broken... or whatever other issue... but this code works in > windows and linux provided that you get the "arial.ttf" in the same > directory as PrintImage.php. > > And... use dirname(__FILE__) or similar (meaning ABSOLUTE PATHS), as > much as possible to reference other files for inclusion or > processing... doing "./myfile.php" or "../myfile.php" leads to > headaches... and usually in the moment you can't take a headache (which > is project deadlines). > > Hope this helps, > > Rob > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dave M G [mailto:martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:31 AM > > To: Andrés Robinet > > Cc: 'PHP List' > > Subject: Re: Writing text into images, and setting text size > > > > Andrés, > > > > Thank you for responding. > > > > > Deploy the fonts along with your scripts... that's the only way I > > know. > > > ... I do so for a custom CAPTCHA script I've made. > > > > This sounds like a good solution. I'm having a little trouble > > implementing it, however. > > > > I have what I believe is a freely distributable font called > > "FreeSans.ttf", and I put it in a directory called "fonts" in the > base > > directory of my site. > > > > However, this seems not to work: > > > > $font = 'fonts/FreeSans.ttf'; > > imagettftext($image, 20, 0, $x, $y, $textColour, $font, $text); > > > > Putting a slash in front to specify starting from the base directory > - > > '/fonts/FreeSans.ttf' - does not seem to work either. > > > > Looking in the manual, it seemed that maybe I needed to set the font > > path with putenv: > > > > $path = realpath('fonts'); > > putenv('GDFONTPATH=' . $path); > > > > But this yielded no results. > > > > Am I still getting the syntax wrong somehow? > > > > Thank you for any advice. > > > > -- > > Dave M G > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
