dynamic generating

[acerdude]

Hi, could anyone tell me how to make or where to get a script that can take a set of letter images and make them into a word that a user types like on cooltext.com and flamingtext.com? Also, a script that allows you to add text to a button? Thnx

 

[Nightfire]

You wanting to create images? If so, you need a host with the gd function (aka GDLibrary) installed

 

[acerdude]

k, but how do i make them?

 

[keith]

do you have any idea what you're talking about?

 

[Canuckkev]

There may be other libraries that will do it. What does ImageMagick do?

 

[Nightfire]

I've only heard of ImageMagic, but it does the same as the gd library. I've never had a host with IM on, they've always come with GD.

If you have GD, go to

http://php.resourceindex.com/Documentation/Examples_and_Tutorials/Images_and_Graphs/

http://www.edevcafe.com/docs/75.html

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/rasmus19990124.php3

 

[acerdude]

i dont know much about this, can these scripts make text effects such as this : http://cooltext.com/ ? i know that these were made using a script but i dont know how. thnx

 

[Nightfire]

Yup, it can do that, but you have to program to be able to do it, it's not as simple as pointing and clicking like a WYSIWYG for html

 

[acerdude]

ya, i understand. is it absolutly neccesary to have a gdlib to do this?

 

[Nightfire]

The server needs to have an image creation package installed onto it. You can't do it yourself either, unless you own the server. The GD and IM are the only image creation packages I know of or have heard of, there may be others out there.

 

[acerdude]

anyone know of a free server that has them?

 

[Salam]

wz.cz : gd + exif (--with-png-dir=/usr & --with-jpeg-dir=/usr ')
traffichouse.de : gd (--enable-gd-imgstrttf & --with-tiff-dir=/usr & --with-jpeg-dir=/usr & --with-png-dir=/usr)

 

[acerdude]

ok, i signed up with both, which is best?

 

[Salam]

traffichouse.de is more secure, but I like wz.cz more .
If you have private info use traffichouse.de .

 

[acerdude]

ok, im not sure how to use the gdlib, could you explain? and thnx for the info, ill use wz.cz since you say its better. btw, i got an email from wz.cz, but i couldnt figure out what it said beacuse i dont speak that. Do you know what im suposed to do with the email?

 

[Nightfire]

Everything you need to know about the GD is on the links I posted.

 

[acerdude]

but i need to know how to use the specific servers gdlib, i cant find how. i think i might have to activate it.

 

[Salam]

Originally posted by acerdude
ok, im not sure how to use the gdlib, could you explain?

This is a simple code with imagecreate() from manual :

<?php
header ("Content-type: image/png");
$im = @imagecreate (50, 100)
    or die ("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
$background_color = imagecolorallocate ($im, 255, 255, 255);
$text_color = imagecolorallocate ($im, 233, 14, 91);
imagestring ($im, 1, 5, 5,  "A Simple Text String", $text_color);
imagepng ($im);
?>

btw, i got an email from wz.cz, but i couldnt figure out what it said beacuse i dont speak that. Do you know what im suposed to do with the email?

If you have subscribed successfully, you can login by ftp : ftp://you.wz.cz@you.wz.cz .

but i need to know how to use the specific servers gdlib, i cant find how. i think i might have to activate it.

The above code works well in wz.cz .
If you want active gd in your local computer, edit php.ini and remove ";" from ;extension=php_gd.dll line .

 

[acerdude]

I made a php file out of that script and uploaded and ran it. i dont think it worked, here it is http://sweetsite.wz.cz/inst.php

 

[Salam]

Originally posted by acerdude
I made a php file out of that script and uploaded and ran it. i dont think it worked, here it is http://sweetsite.wz.cz/inst.php

Your code returns png info successfully but with some extra characters. I dont know what is wrong .
Use netcat to see or see attachment file .
Change all "png"s to "jpeg" ( image/jpeg, imagejpeg() ) and try again .
If dosnt work, try this one :

header ("Content-type: image/jpeg");
$im = imagecreate (200, 30);
$black = imagecolorallocate ($im, 0, 0, 0);
$white = imagecolorallocate ($im, 255, 255, 255);
imagettftext ($im, 20, 0, 10, 20, $white, cwd()."/myfont.ttf", "Hello"); // or just "myfont.ttf" without cwd()
imagejpeg ($im);
imagedestroy ($im);

And upload your "myfont.ttf" to your home dir.