Ashley Sheridan wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 18:42 -0400, PJ wrote:
>
>> Jim Lucas wrote:
>>
>>> PJ wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there a module to be activated or what has to be installed to have
>>>> ttf support in php?
>>>> My port on FreeBSD does not have an option for ttf support under make
>>>> config .
>>>> I'm trying to learn & understand the following:
>>>> In file1 : <img src="button.php?s=36&text=PHP+is+Cool" />
>>>> In file2 (button.php)- originally php3 :
>>>> <?php
>>>> Header("Content-type: image/gif");
>>>> if(!isset($s)) $s=11;
>>>>
>>> The above should be:
>>>
>>> if ( empty($_GET['s']) ) {
>>> $s = 11;
>>> } else {
>>> $s = (int)$_GET['s'];
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>>> $size = imagettfbbox($s,0,"times.ttf",$text);
>>>>
>>> and this should be
>>>
>>> $text = '';
>>> if ( !empty($_GET['text']) )
>>> $text = your_custom_input_cleaner_function($_GET['text']);
>>>
>>> $size = imagettfbbox($s,0,"times.ttf",$text);
>>>
>>>
>>>> $dx = abs($size[2]-$size[0]);
>>>> $dy = abs($size[5]-$size[3]);
>>>> $xpad=9;
>>>> $ypad=9;
>>>> $im = imagecreate($dx+$xpad,$dy+$ypad);
>>>> $blue = ImageColorAllocate($im, 0x2c,0x6D,0xAF);
>>>> $black = ImageColorAllocate($im, 0,0,0);
>>>> $white = ImageColorAllocate($im, 255,255,255);
>>>> ImageRectangle($im,0,0,$dx+$xpad-1,$dy+$ypad-1,$black);
>>>> ImageRectangle($im,0,0,$dx+$xpad,$dy+$ypad,$white);
>>>> ImageTTFText($im, $s, 0, (int)($xpad/2)+1, $dy+(int)($ypad/2), $black,
>>>> "times.ttf", $text);
>>>> ImageTTFText($im, $s, 0, (int)($xpad/2), $dy+(int)($ypad/2)-1, $white,
>>>> "times.ttf", $text);
>>>> ImageGif($im);
>>>> ImageDestroy($im);
>>>> ?>
>>>> ONLY the above & nothing else. So far, all I get is a small blue square.
>>>> Replacing the $text with the text just gives a rectangle a bit wider.
>>>> gd is installed but ttf is not, so I figure that is the culprit.
>>>> But how is the text supposed to be assigned to $text from file1?
>>>> TIA
>>>>
>> Thank you for that. Now it works. I see, the $s had to come from
>> somewhere...
>> But what's the custom_cleaner_function - I mean, to clean what? & Why?
>> What if I use some foreign accents, like é or À ?
>>
>> --
>> Hervé Kempf: "Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme."
>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>> Phil Jourdan --- pj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> http://www.ptahhotep.com
>> http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php
>>
>>
>>
> content coming from MS Office clipboard pastes generally contain
> characters that are encoded wrong, and do not display correctly in web
> pages unless they have very relaxed doctypes. The function I generally
> use is:
>
> function removeMSCrap($crap)
> {
> $find = Array(chr(128), chr(133), chr(8226), chr(145), chr(8217),
> chr(146), chr(8220), chr(147), chr(8221), chr(148), chr(8226), chr(149),
> chr(8211), chr(150), chr(8212), chr(151), chr(8282), chr(153), chr(169),
> chr(174));
> $replace = Array("€", "…", "″", "'", "'",
> "'", "'", """, """, """, """, "•",
> "•", "–", "–", "—", "—", "™", "™",
> "©", "®");
>
> $roses = str_replace($find, $replace, $crap);
> return $roses;
> }
>
>
> Ash
> www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>
>
Uh. Ok. That's cool. Somehow I have managed to never use MS Office for
anything else than web applications. Generally I open .doc with
OpenOffice. But, who know's? Thanks, anyway. :-)
--
Hervé Kempf: "Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme."
-------------------------------------------------------------
Phil Jourdan --- pj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.ptahhotep.com
http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php
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