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Font tester - I thought I had it.

 

Hi all

 

I'm trying to produce this font tester where you can set a font with inputted text at a selected size.

In my demo here http://www.ttmt.org.uk/test/ I can type in text and select the size. The image is set with

the correct text and size but everything else is removed from the page.

How can I do this so the image of the text appears below the form in the image tag.

 

<?php
  if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
    // Set the content-type
  	header('Content-Type: image/png');

  	// Create the image
  	$im = imagecreatetruecolor(400, 30);

  	// Create some colors
  	$white = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
  	$black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
  	imagefilledrectangle($im, 0, 0, 399, 29, $white);

  	// The text to draw
  	$text = $_POST['text'];
  	$textSize = $_POST['size'];
  	$font = 'corbelb.ttf';

  	// Add the text
  	//imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 10, 20, $black, $font, $text);
  	imagettftext($im, $textSize, 0, 10, 20, $black, $font, $text);

  	// Using imagepng() results in clearer text compared with imagejpeg()
  	$img = imagepng($im);
  	imagedestroy($im);
  }

?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

<title>untitled</title>
</head>

<body>
  <form action="index.php" method="post">
    <input type="text" name="text" />
    <select name="size">
      <option value="10">10</option>
      <option value="12">12</option>
      <option value="14">14</option>
      <option value="18">18</option>
      <option value="24">24</option>
      <option value="30">30</option>
      <option value="36">36</option>
    </select>  
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Set →" />
  </form>
  
<img src="<?php echo $img; ?>" />

</body>
</html>

 

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The problem is you are echoing out an actual image, so the page thinks you are just displaying an image. In order to do this, you should have a seperate script, image.php and pass variables via GET to it:

 

image.php:

<?php
if (!empty($_GET['text'])) {
    // Set the content-type
  	header('Content-Type: image/png');

  	// Create the image
  	$im = imagecreatetruecolor(400, 30);

  	// Create some colors
  	$white = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
  	$black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
  	imagefilledrectangle($im, 0, 0, 399, 29, $white);

  	// The text to draw
  	$text = $_GET['text'];
  	$textSize = $_GET['size'];
  	$font = 'corbelb.ttf';

  	// Add the text
  	//imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 10, 20, $black, $font, $text);
  	imagettftext($im, $textSize, 0, 10, 20, $black, $font, $text);

  	// Using imagepng() results in clearer text compared with imagejpeg()
  	$img = imagepng($im);
  	imagedestroy($im);
}

 

index.php:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

<title>untitled</title>
</head>

<body>
  <form action="index.php" method="post">
    <input type="text" name="text" />
    <select name="size">
      <option value="10">10</option>
      <option value="12">12</option>
      <option value="14">14</option>
      <option value="18">18</option>
      <option value="24">24</option>
      <option value="30">30</option>
      <option value="36">36</option>
    </select>  
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Set →" />
  </form>
  
<?php if (!empty($_POST['submit'])) {
        echo '<img src="image.php?text=' . $_POST['text'] . '&size='.$_POST['size'].'" />';
}
?>

</body>
</html>

 

And that should get you what you are looking for (pending any syntax errors on my end).

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Thanks premiso, thorpe for your help, thorpe I understand now I think

 

I've got this partly working now but I'm stuck again - http://www.ttmt.org.uk/test/index.php

 

It starts now with a predefined text area (red) and text. I can enter text and select a size that is show in the text area as an image.

 

My problem is I want to be able to change the font size without changing the text. If I try to change the text size with nothing in the text input area nothing is displayed because nothing is in the text box. I want to keep the last thing displayed the red area but just change the font size. I can see why this is happening but can't work out a solution.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

index.php

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

<title>untitled</title>
  <style type="text/css">
    *{margin:0;padding:0;}
    #wrap{margin:20px 0 0 20px;}
    img{margin:20px 0 0 0px;}
  </style>
</head>

<body>
  <div id="wrap">
    <form action="index.php" method="post">
      <input type="text" name="text" />
      <select name="size">
        <option value="10">10</option>
        <option value="12">12</option>
        <option value="14">14</option>
        <option value="18">18</option>
        <option value="24">24</option>
        <option value="30">30</option>
        <option value="36">36</option>
        <option value="50">50</option>
        <option value="100">100</option>
      </select>  
      <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Set →" />
    </form>
  
  	<?php 
  		  
  	if(!empty($_POST['submit'])){
  	  if($_POST['text'] != ""){
  	    $myText = $_POST['text'];
    	  $mySize = $_POST['size'];
    	  echo '<img src="image.php?text='.$myText.'&size='.$mySize.'">';
  	  }else{
  	    $mySize = $_POST['size'];
    	  echo '<img src="image.php?size='.$mySize.'">';
  	  }
  	}else{
  	  $myText = "Handgloves";
  	  $mySize = 50;
  	  echo '<img src="image.php?text='.$myText.'&size='.$mySize.'">';
  	}
  	  
  	?>
  </div>
</body>
</html>

 

 

image.php

<?php
        
header('Content-Type: image/png');

$im = imagecreatetruecolor(600, 160);

$red = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 0, 0);
$black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
imagefilledrectangle($im, 0, 0, 600, 199, $red);
    
  if(($_GET['text'] != "")){
    $text = $_GET['text']; 
  }
  
$textSize = $_GET['size'];
$font = 'corbelb.ttf';

imagettftext($im, $textSize, 0, 10, 120, $black, $font, $text);

$img = imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);

?>

 

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Sorry to pester but can anyone help with this, it's driving me crazy now.

 

This is my latest attempt - I thought I could use an array to store the text then use that value in the array when the input text field was empty.

 

index.php

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

<title>untitled</title>
  <style type="text/css">
    *{margin:0;padding:0;}
    #wrap{margin:20px 0 0 20px;}
    img{margin:20px 0 0 0px;}
  </style>
</head>

<body>
  <div id="wrap">
    <form action="index.php" method="post">
      <input type="text" name="text" />
      <select name="size">
        <option value="24">24</option>
        <option value="30">30</option>
        <option value="36">36</option>
        <option value="50">50</option>
        <option value="100">100</option>
      </select>  
      <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Set →" />
    </form>
  
  	<?php 
  	  
  	  $oldText = array();
  	  
    	if(!empty($_POST['submit'])){
    	  if($_POST['text'] != ""){
    	    $myText = $_POST['text'];
    	    array_unshift($oldText, $myText);
    	    print_r($oldText);
      	  $mySize = $_POST['size'];
      	  echo '<img src="image.php?text='.$myText.'&size='.$mySize.'">';
    	  }else{
    	    print_r($oldText);
    	    $mySize = $_POST['size'];
    	    $myText = $oldText[0];
      	  echo '<img src="image.php?text='.$myText.'&size='.$mySize.'">';
    	  }
    	}else{
    	  $myText = "Handgloves";
    	  array_unshift($oldText, $myText);
    	  print_r($oldText);
    	  $mySize = 50;
    	  echo '<img src="image.php?text='.$myText.'&size='.$mySize.'">';
    	}
  	?>
  </div>
</body>
</html>

 

image.php

<?php
        
header('Content-Type: image/png');

$im = imagecreatetruecolor(600, 160);

$red = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 0, 0);
$black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
imagefilledrectangle($im, 0, 0, 600, 199, $red);
    
  $text = $_GET['text'];
$textSize = $_GET['size'];
$font = 'corbelb.ttf';

imagettftext($im, $textSize, 0, 10, 120, $black, $font, $text);

$img = imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);

?>

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