[SOLVED] Text to Image

[PhaZZed]

Greetings,

 

I am curious about text to image encoding - I have had a look at phpclasses.org and have managed to download a library and convert some text to an image in png format - this is all working, but what I would really like to do is attempt to code one of these 'glitter text' things. In other words, the user would enter in their name and it would display their name in 'funky colourful' text.

 

I've seen it done all over myspace and facebook, and just wonder how this works or if anyone has some sample code. There is a much bigger picture to this, I don't want to create a silly kids text converter, but I need the understanding before I can evolve.

 

Any help will be appreciated. Thank-you!

[PhaZZed]

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[helraizer]

you'd want, somewhere along the lines of:

 

<?

$font = "funky_colourful.ttf"; //assuming it's in the same directory.  If you want to give the user a choice of fonts, I'll tell you how to do that seperately if you so request.

$red = ImageColorAllocate($image, 255, 0, 0); // Red

$user = $_POST['username'];
$text = $_POST['usertext']; // The text that'll be on the image

//$image = ImageCreate(100,80); 
$image = ImageCreateFromPng("filename.png"); // Assuming you want to add the text to a pre-designed background, or whatever.

$blue = ImageColorAllocate($image, 200, 200, 255); // prepare some blueness

ImageFill($image, 0, 0, $blue); // fill the canvas

imagettftext($image,10,0,10,10,$color,$font,$text); //  

header("Content-Type: image/png"); // tell the browser what we're gonna give it
ImagePng($image); // paint the image in browser
ImagePng($image, $user.".png"); //export as png file
ImageDestroy($image); // clean up resources

?>

 

Sam

 

[PhaZZed]

That's fantastic helrazor!!!

 

I got it running with a different font, and changing background colours, etc. I'm pretty well rehearsed in PHP so I can go wild from here! Just need to find out what each function does, so I can change the font size. I can write the code to change fonts, etc. that's easy

 

Thanks a million and one!

 

 

[helraizer]

Glad you got it working. Don't hesitate to ask if anything goes wrong.

 

Sam

[PhaZZed]

I actually dropped you an email..

 

Hey bud,

 

Thanks a million for the help with the text to image on phpfreaks

forums. I looked high and low for something like that, big up!

 

http://www.sparklee.com/

 

That is an example of what I would like to acheive, I've managed to

solve the font sizes and positioning, it's not the filling that might

be tricky..

 

1. create coloured background full of stars

2. print font on top

3. switch layers

 

almost like that i suppose...