Help with external .txt files being read into php dynamic images

[Luigi987]

Hello,

I'm having trouble with my PHP script.

 

I'm trying to get it to read text from a separate .txt file to display in a php dynamic PNG image.

The code for it is here:

<?php
$image = ImageCreateFromPNG("base.png");
$color = imagecolorallocate($image, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF);
$colorShadow = imagecolorallocate($image, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66);
$font = 'start.ttf';
$fontSize = "6";
$fontRotation = "0";
$str = "[Text read from file goes here]";


/* Shadow */
ImageTTFText($image, $fontSize, $fontRotation, 7, 22, $colorShadow, $font, $str);

/* Top Level */
ImageTTFText($image, $fontSize, $fontRotation, 5, 20, $color, $font, $str);

header("Content-Type: image/PNG");
ImagePng ($image);
imagedestroy($image);
?>

 

I need to somehow get the text from the txt file to be read and used in the [Text read from file goes here] part.

 

Any help is appreciated.

[kenrbnsn]

You showed us everything except how you're trying to read the file.

 

Ken

[Luigi987]

Well, anything that will get the contents of the text file read into the $str array and displayed on the image is all I need.

[kenrbnsn]

There are many ways in PHP to read a file:

fread

fgets

file

file_get_contents

 

Have you looked at any of these?

 

I would use file_get_contents, but you should look at each one to learn how each could be used.

 

<?php
$str = trim(file_get_contents('thefilename.here'));
?>

 

Ken