On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 09:57 -0400, PJ wrote:
> 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
>
>
It's mainly for the benefit of other people, who do use MS programs and
copy and paste things into your web apps and then wonder why things
don't work exactly how they expect
Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
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