[SOLVED] Call to undefined function: imagettftext() error

[dsaba]

hello everyone i'm getting this error:

<b>Fatal error</b>:  Call to undefined function:  imagettftext()

 

this the the code i'm running:

<?PHP
$background1 = "/images/background.png";
$avatar1 = "/images/avatar.png";
$background = imagecreatefrompng($background1);
$avatar = imagecreatefrompng($avatar1);
imagecopymerge($background, $avatar, 5, 28, 0, 0, 70, 67, 100);


$white = imagecolorallocate($background, 255, 255, 255);
$fontfile = "/fonts/varsity_regular.ttf";
$string = "Superdude1";
//imagettftext($image, $font_size, 0, $x, $y, $text_color, $this->font , $code) or die('Error in imagettftext function');
imagettftext($background, 12, 0, 3, 17, $white, $fontfile, $string);


imagepng($background, "usercard.png");
imagedestroy($background);
imagedestroy($avatar);

?>

 

How can I fix it? Why am I getting the error?

[trq]

It would appear you do not have the GD library or maybe freetype installed and configure correctly. Can you see it in a call to phpinfo()?

[dsaba]

it appears that gd is enabled i have successfully created and displayed images before

 

i dont know where to look for "freetype" in my phpinfo

 

here it is:

http://tinyurl.com/3b3ecp

 

[dsaba]

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ok obviously freetype support isn't there in my phpinfo good news is I found a host that supports it

 

however now I get this error:

Warning: imagettftext(): Could not find/open font

 

are there only certain fonts that you can use with this function?

 

as you can see in my above code I used this font:

$fontfile = "/fonts/varsity_regular.ttf";

 

 

and the font IS NOT in the same directory it is in /fonts, is that also a problem?