GD Text to Image

[CanMan2004]

Hi all

I have a simple text to image GD script

[code]<?php
header ("Content-type: image/png");
$handle = ImageCreate (275, 386) or die ("Cannot Create image");
$bg_color = ImageColorAllocate ($handle, 255, 255, 255);
$txt_color = ImageColorAllocate ($handle, 0, 0, 0);
ImageTTFText ($handle, 8, 180, 270, 360, $txt_color, "arial.ttf", "".$_GET['txt']."");
ImagePng ($handle);
?>[/code]

It works when passing the URL

www.mysite.com/website/image.php?txt=this is a test

The script works fine, my question is, how can I get the text to word wrap, as it currently keeps all text onto the same line.

Secondly, how can I get GD to understand line breaks in the url, for example, if I pass the text

this is a text<br>this is another test<br>this is the last test

then it shows all that on one line, and prints in the text <br>

that is the same if you replace <br> with \n

Any help would be great

Thanks in advance

Ed

[.josh]

i only have simple knowledge of the gd library, just enough to do a little customization of captcha type scripts, but i don't think the gd library specifically supports that. I think you are going to have to write your own function with conditions and some regexing and then create the image with the text using specific x,y coordinates, based on # of lines, etc... but hey, i could be wrong. there might be some gd function already made that does all that for you. 

[AndyB]

gd alone can't do what you want.

Pass the multi-line text using an obvious delimiter between lines.
At the start of your gd script, use the explode() function to separate that multi-line text into single lines.
The size of the exploded array will let you define the vertical co-ordinate for each separate line
Loop thru' theImageTTFtext as many times as you have separate lines

[CanMan2004]

Thanks