Imagecreate Question

[9999]

I can get this to work if I manually type in some text and assign it to the $text variable.  When I try to assign a file to the text variable all that is displyed is "array".

 

Also, what would be the correct way for me to save the image as "testimage.gif"?

 

<?php

$text = file('myfile.php');  // file used for output data

$im = imagecreate(325, 160);  // create a 325*160 image

$bg = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);  // black background color
$textcolor = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 215, 0);  // gold text color

imagestring($im, 5, 0, 0, $text, $textcolor);  // write the string at the top left

// output the image
header("Content-type: image/gif");
imagegif($im);

// save the image
imagegif($img,"testimage.gif",80);

?>

 

Thanks

[fert]

file creates an array containing the lines in the file

[9999]

OK, I am a newbie. What I want it to do is display the result of a php file in the box instead of text I type. What do I need to do that?

[9999]

Kinda like what fert is doing im his signature.

[9999]

What do I use to open/run the php file?