imagettftext problem

[Guest HavocWeb]

I am working on some simple code to generate ttf text in PHP and for some reason can not get it to work. The code I am using was something I got online to start testing with. It will show a a green square but will not generate any text from the font. I have a folder called font that has the Arial.ttf font and also a copy of it just called Arial with no .ttf (just to cover all bases). It does not matter what code I am trying, none of them generate the ttf text. So I assume it is something with finding the font or using it corretly.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here is the code I am using.

(oh yeah, and this is for my wife's site and she is breathing down my neck to complete this...so please HELP) lol.

 

<?php

$fontpath = realpath('./font/');

putenv('GDFONTPATH='.$fontpath);

 

$font = 'Arial';

header("Content-type: image/png");

$im = imagecreate(200, 200);

$green = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 255, 0);

$red = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 0, 0);

imagefill($im, 0, 0, $green);

imagettftext($im, 10, 45, 50, 150, $red, $font, "SAMPLE!");

imagepng($im);

imagedestroy($im);

?>

 

I am trying this on both my local machine and my online server, but neither one works. The local machine is running PHP 5.2.0 and the web one is 4.x.x. The GD seems to all be in order as well.

GD Support enabled

GD Version bundled (2.0.28 compatible)

FreeType Support enabled

FreeType Linkage with freetype

FreeType Version 2.1.10

T1Lib Support enabled

GIF Read Support enabled

GIF Create Support enabled

JPG Support enabled

PNG Support enabled

WBMP Support enabled

XBM Support enabled

[tippy_102]

You are not making use of those first two lines:

$fontpath = realpath('./font/');

putenv('GDFONTPATH='.$fontpath);

 

If you put arial.ttf in the same directory as the php file, I bet it works. 

[Guest HavocWeb]

First, thanks for your reply. I was begginging to think no one was going to have any ideas.

 

 

I originally had and actually still do have the arial font located in the same folder as the php script. I read somewhere that if the name of the font in the code is not preceded with a / that .ttf will be added to the end of the font name, making it Arial.ttf. Now is the script looking for Arial.ttf or Arial.TTF.

Second question I have is about the actual font itself. Is this just a standard ttf font like the ones located on computer. I Originally got the Arial font from my fonts folder on my Mac.

 

When I run this script on either my local machine or online, all i see is a 200 x 200 green square. There is not text at all. Now I read lots of posts from people saying they were getting errors from php about not being able to locate the font  file. Since I am not seeing these errors can I assume that the code is locating the font fine? If so why would it not output text?

 

This is one of them times where no matter what I try to troubleshoot it I get nowhere.

[tippy_102]

I copied your above code, and it works for me. I get a green square with the word sample written in red, at a 45 deg. angle.

 

Red on green can be difficult for some people to see....maybe if you try a different color for the text?

 

 

$black= imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);

 

imagettftext($im, 10, 45, 50, 150, $black, $font, "SAMPLE!");

 

[Guest HavocWeb]

Hey tippy_102,

 

Thanks again for your reply.

 

Ya I guess the red/green combo is bad although that is just default colors that were in the code, not that i intend on

using that color scheme. lol

 

I added the black code also to use but still nothing, and I think it has to be my usage of the font. I am probably just

doing something really stupid, I have a folder on my local machine and inside that folder i copied my mac os x system

arail font into that folder. The php code img.php that contains the code above is located in the same folder and I also have

a folder called font inside there with e arial font as well. That way i can try using it from either location, just incase the code

was reading it from either location. The font is spelled Arial.ttf using that capitalization. On my online server it is the same

setup.

 

Does that look similar to how you tested it? did you copy the Arial font to a similar location?

 

Thanks

 

 

[Guest HavocWeb]

here is a link to the online version.

http://www.railseffect.com/img/img.php

[tippy_102]

My directory has test.php and Arial.ttf.  I'm on xp using xampp

 

test.php

<?
$font = 'Arial';
header("Content-type: image/png");
$im = imagecreate(200, 200);
$green = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 255, 0);
$red = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 0, 0);
imagefill($im, 0, 0, $green);
imagettftext($im, 10, 45, 50, 150, $red, $font, "SAMPLE!");
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>

 

test.png is attached

 

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[Guest HavocWeb]

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