Help with image creating php script

[dlow128]

I have a php script that returns a designated number of barcodes ($barcodesrequired). What I am having trouble doing is creating a plain white image underneath each barcode to enable me to send text to this white image via ImageString.

The code below generates 10 barcodes all with the text: "JUST A TEST" embeded in the middle of the barcode. A white image underneath will allow me to in effect have the same label info & barcode duplicated down the page ready to be printed.

Any help would be much appriciated.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

<?php

mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("test") or die(mysql_error()); 

$query = mysql_fetch_row(mysql_query("select codes from list order by rand() limit 1"));

    $barcodeheight=40;
    $barcodethinwidth=2;
    $barcodethickwidth=$barcodethinwidth*3;
    $codingmap  =  Array( "0"=> "000110100", "1"=> "100100001",
        "2"=> "001100001", "3"=> "101100000", "4"=> "000110001",
        "5"=> "100110000", "6"=> "001110000", "7"=> "000100101",
        "8"=> "100100100", "9"=> "001100100", "A"=> "100001001",
        "B"=> "001001001", "C"=> "101001000", "D"=> "000011001",
        "E"=> "100011000", "F"=> "001011000", "G"=> "000001101",
        "H"=> "100001100", "I"=> "001001100", "J"=> "000011100",
        "K"=> "100000011", "L"=> "001000011", "M"=> "101000010",
        "N"=> "000010011", "O"=> "100010010", "P"=> "001010010",   
        "Q"=> "000000111", "R"=> "100000110", "S"=> "001000110",
        "T"=> "000010110", "U"=> "110000001", "V"=> "011000001",
        "W"=> "111000000", "X"=> "010010001", "Y"=> "110010000",
        "Z"=> "011010000", " "=> "011000100", "$"=> "010101000",
        "%"=> "000101010", "*"=> "010010100", "+"=> "010001010",
        "-"=> "010000101", "."=> "110000100", "/"=> "010100010");
    $text  =  strtoupper($query[0]);
    $textlen  =  strlen($text);
    $barcodewidth  =  ($textlen)*(7*$barcodethinwidth + 3*$barcodethickwidth)-$barcodethinwidth;
    $im  =  ImageCreate($barcodewidth,$barcodeheight);
    $im3 = ImageCreate($barcodewidth,$barcodeheight);
    $black  =  ImageColorAllocate($im,0,0,0);
    $white  =  ImageColorAllocate($im,255,255,255);
$color = '#000000';
    imagefill($im,0,0,$white);
    imagestring($im,4,30,25,"JUST A TEST",$color);
    $xpos=0;
    for  ($idx=0;$idx<$textlen;$idx++)  {
        $char  =  substr($text,$idx,1);
        // make  unknown  chars  a  '-';
        if  (!isset($codingmap[$char]))  $char  =  "-";
        for  ($baridx=0;$baridx<=8;$baridx++)  {
            $elementwidth  =  (substr($codingmap[$char],$baridx,1))  ? $barcodethickwidth : $barcodethinwidth;
            if  (($baridx+1)%2)  imagefilledrectangle($im,$xpos,0,$xpos + $elementwidth-1,$barcodeheight,$black);
            $xpos+=$elementwidth;
        }
        $xpos+=$elementwidth;
    }

  $barcodesRequired = 10;
$im2 = imageCreate($barcodewidth,$barcodeheight*$barcodesRequired);
for($x = 0; $x< $barcodesRequired; $x ++){
    imagecopy($im2,$im,0,$barcodeheight*$x,0,0,$barcodewidth,$barcodeheight);
}

header('Content-type: image/png');
ImageGif($im2);
ImageDestroy($im);
ImageDestroy($im2);

?>