ImageTTFText() failure

[ThePhoenixRising]

I'm writing a Dynamic image, that display's a user's Name, but for some reason, the kills stat won't print. I made a .php file using the same parsing method, but using echo, and it worked fine. I also know it's not an issue with X,Y, Size, float, anything like that because I tried replacing "$kill" with "Test," and it printed fine.

Here is the actual image:

 

 

And here is the code for it:

<?php
Header ('Content-type: image/jpeg');
Header('Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
Header('Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT');
Header('Pragma: no-cache');

// get CMID variable from the url
$cmid = $_GET['cmid'];

// create the image using your own background
$image = imagecreatefromjpeg("background.jpg");

// dimensions of the image used
$img_width = 600;
$img_height = 9;

// set the colours
$cool  = imagecolorallocate($image, 81, 86, 96);
$black = imagecolorallocate($image, 0, 0, 0);
$white = imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 255, 255);
$red   = imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 0, 0);
$grey  = imagecolorallocate($image, 204, 204, 204);
$green = imagecolorallocate($image, 206, 129, 18);
$blue  = imagecolorallocate($image, 0, 0, 255);
$yellow  = imagecolorallocate($image, 225, 225, 0);

// set the font and print text
$font = 'Verdana.ttf';

/*
// counter - CHMOD your counter file to 777
$viewss = file("views.txt");
$views = $viewss[0]; $views++;
$fp = fopen("views.txt", "w");
fwrite($fp, $views);
fclose($fp);
$counter = "$views";

// View Output
imagettftext($image, 7, 0, 16, 117, $yellow, $font, "Views:$counter");
*/

// Attempt to make web content grabber.

function get_url_contents($url){
        $crl = curl_init();
        $timeout = 5;
        curl_setopt ($crl, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
        curl_setopt ($crl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt ($crl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
        $ret = curl_exec($crl);
        curl_close($crl);
        return $ret;
}

// Web content grabber execution.
$returned_content = get_url_contents('http://uberstrike.cmune.com/Profile?cmid=' .  $cmid);

// Parsing the returned content for Clan Tag.
$namestart = strpos($returned_content, '<span style="color: #FEC42C; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;">');
$nameend = strpos($returned_content, '</span>', $namestart);
$name = substr($returned_content, $namestart, $nameend-$namestart);

// Stripping the parsed Clan Tag of HTML elements.
$name = html_entity_decode(strip_tags($name));

// Clan and name output.
imagettftext($image, 7, 0, 53, 7, $yellow, $font, "$name");

// Parsing the returned content for Global Rank.

$rankstart = strpos($returned_content, '<h2 style="font-size:14px; font-weight:bold; text-indent:0px; margin-left:25px;">');
$rankend = strpos($returned_content, '<br />', $rankstart);
$rank = substr($returned_content, $rankstart, $rankend-$rankstart);

// Stripping the parsed Global Rank of HTML.

$rank = html_entity_decode(strip_tags($rank));

// Filtering Rank to only show the value number, not text or formatting in between.

$rank = str_replace ("G", "", $rank);
$rank = str_replace ("l", "", $rank);
$rank = str_replace ("o", "", $rank);
$rank = str_replace ("b", "", $rank);
$rank = str_replace ("a", "", $rank);
$rank = str_replace ("R", "", $rank);
$rank = str_replace ("n", "", $rank);
$rank = str_replace ("k", "", $rank);
$rank = str_replace (":", "", $rank);
$rank = str_replace (" ", "", $rank);

// Rank Output.

imagettftext($image, 7, 0, 220, 7, $yellow, $font, "$rank");

$killstart = strpos($returned_content, '<h3 style="color: #FEC42C;">All time record</h3>');
$killend = strpos($returned_content, '</tr>', $killstart);
$kill = substr($returned_content, $killstart, $killend-$killstart);

// Stripping the parsed kill of HTML.

$kill = html_entity_decode(strip_tags($kill));

// Filtering kill to only show the value number, not text or formatting in between.

$kill = str_replace ("K", "", $kill);
$kill = str_replace ("i", "", $kill);
$kill = str_replace ("l", "", $kill);
$kill = str_replace ("A", "", $kill);
$kill = str_replace ("t", "", $kill);
$kill = str_replace ("m", "", $kill);
$kill = str_replace ("e", "", $kill);
$kill = str_replace ("r", "", $kill);
$kill = str_replace ("o", "", $kill);
$kill = str_replace ("d", "", $kill);
$kill = str_replace ("c", "", $kill);
$kill = str_replace ("s", "", $kill);
$kill = str_replace (" ", "", $kill);

// Kill Stats output.
imagettftext($image, 7, 0, 410, 7, $yellow, $font, "$kill"); 

// IP Logger
$logfile= 'iplog.html';
$IPlog = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$logdetails=  date("F j, Y, g:i a") . ': ' . '<a href=http://www.ip2location.com/demo.aspx?ip='.$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'].'>'.$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'].'</a>';
$fplog = fopen($logfile, "a"); 
fwrite($fplog, $logdetails);
fwrite($fplog, "<br>");
fclose($fplog); 

// output and destroy
imagepng($image);
imagedestroy($image);

?>

 

I tried using the same parsing code for the $kill stat, and it works fine: http://dynfosig.com/Phoenix_uploads/clangadget/Test.php?cmid=563853

<?php
// get CMID variable from the url
$cmid = $_GET['cmid'];

function get_url_contents($url){
        $crl = curl_init();
        $timeout = 5;
        curl_setopt ($crl, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
        curl_setopt ($crl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt ($crl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
        $ret = curl_exec($crl);
        curl_close($crl);
        return $ret;
}

$returned_content = get_url_contents('http://uberstrike.cmune.com/Profile?cmid=' .  $cmid);

$killstart = strpos($returned_content, '<h3 style="color: #FEC42C;">All time record</h3>');
$killend = strpos($returned_content, '</tr>', $killstart);
$kill = substr($returned_content, $killstart, $killend-$killstart);

// Stripping the parsed kill of HTML.

$kill = html_entity_decode(strip_tags($kill));

// Filtering kill to only show the value number, not text or formatting in between.

$kill = str_replace ("K", "", $kill);
$kill = str_replace ("i", "", $kill);
$kill = str_replace ("l", "", $kill);
$kill = str_replace ("A", "", $kill);
$kill = str_replace ("t", "", $kill);
$kill = str_replace ("m", "", $kill);
$kill = str_replace ("e", "", $kill);
$kill = str_replace ("r", "", $kill);
$kill = str_replace ("o", "", $kill);
$kill = str_replace ("d", "", $kill);
$kill = str_replace ("c", "", $kill);
$kill = str_replace ("s", "", $kill);
$kill = str_replace (" ", "", $kill);

// Kill Stats output.

echo $kill;

?>

 

* Moderator Note: Please do not remove code snippets from the question.

[salathe]

The value of $kill has a whole bunch of whitespace around the number. When this gets written with imagettftext(), it is being written but the text falls off the bottom of the image. So before you try to write it to the image, have $kill = trim($kill);.

[ThePhoenixRising]

The value of $kill has a whole bunch of whitespace around the number. When this gets written with imagettftext(), it is being written but the text falls off the bottom of the image. So before you try to write it to the image, have $kill = trim($kill);.

 

That worked! Thanks!!! 

[salathe]

Great. Please mark the topic as solved.

 

P.S. Please don't edit out the code snippets in the question.