PHP: imagestring

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imagestring

jurgen dot vanoosterwijck at pandora dot be
12-May-2005 12:52


Based on the previous example, here's how to center a string both horizontally and vertically...



<?php

function imagestringcentered ($img,$font,$text,$color) {

 while (strlen($text) * imagefontwidth($font) > imagesx($img)) {

  if ($font > 1) { $font--; }

  else { break; }

 } 

 $cy = (imagesy($img)/2) - (imagefontwidth($font)/2);

 imagestring($img,$font,imagesx($img) / 2 - strlen($text) * imagefontwidth($font) / 2,$cy,$text,$color);

}

?>

shadikka at gmail dot com
26-Mar-2005 01:49


My version of the centered string, it decreases the font number (since I've noticed smaller numbers are smaller fonts) until 1 if the string won't fit. Then it will give up.



<?php

function imagestringcentered ($img,$font,$cy,$text,$color) {

 while (strlen($text) * imagefontwidth($font) > imagesx($img)) {

  if ($font > 1) { $font--; }

  else { break; }

 }  

 imagestring($img,$font,imagesx($img) / 2 - strlen($text) * imagefontwidth($font) / 2,$cy,$text,$color);

}

?>

webmaster at acdrifter dot com
28-Feb-2005 10:08


If you are looking to center the text, use the following function; I'm not promising perfection...



function imagecenteredstring ( &$img, $font, $xMin, $xMax, $y, $str, $col ) {

    $textWidth = imagefontwidth( $font ) * strlen( $str );

    $xLoc = ( $xMax - $xMin - $textWidth ) / 2 + $xMin + $font;

    imagestring( $img, $font, $xLoc, $y, $str, $col );

}

cesargus at yahoo dot com
17-Nov-2004 12:27


//simple hello world



<?

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



$img_handle = ImageCreate (200, 20) or die ("Cannot Create image");

$back_color = ImageColorAllocate ($img_handle, 0, 10, 10);

$txt_color = ImageColorAllocate ($img_handle, 235, 235, 51);

ImageString ($img_handle, 10, 25, 5,  "Hello world!", $txt_color);

ImagePng ($img_handle); 

?>

brooks dot boyd at gmail dot com
13-Oct-2004 02:35


Drawing a string as an image is a handy way to disguise an eMail address so spam sniffers can't get it as easily. The only catch to creating a dynamic image with your eMail in it is the eMail to be displayed must be passed via the query string to enable static HTML to use it. So, the eMail must be encrypted slightly in order to not defeat the purpose of not typing your eMail address outright. I wrote the following script to do so:



Save the following as email.php

<?php

    if ($_GET['addr'] != "") {

        $msg = $_GET['addr'];

        $msg = preg_replace("/\[dot]/",".",$msg);

        $msg = preg_replace("/\[at]/","@",$msg);

        $final = "";

        for ($i=0; $i<=strlen($msg); $i++) {

            $final .= substr($msg, strlen($msg)-$i, 1);

        }

        $msg = $final;



        $char_width = 8;

        $char_height = 17;

        $padding = 3;

        $width = $padding*2+strlen($msg)*$char_width;

        $height = +$padding*2+$char_height;

        $im = imagecreatetruecolor($width,$height);

        imagealphablending($im, FALSE);

        imagesavealpha($im, TRUE);

        $bg = imagecolorallocatealpha($im, 255, 255, 0, 100);

        $text = imagecolorallocatealpha($im, 0, 0, 0, 0);

        imagefilledrectangle ($im, 0, 0, $width, $height, $bg); # Make transparent

        imagestring($im, 4, $padding, $padding, $msg, $text);

    } else {

        $im = imagecreatetruecolor(1,1);

        imagealphablending($im, FALSE);

        imagesavealpha($im, TRUE);

        $bg = imagecolorallocatealpha($im, 255, 0, 0, 125);

        imagefilledrectangle ($im, 0, 0, 1, 1, $bg); # Make transparent

    }

    header('Content-type: image/jpg');

    imagepng($im);

    imagedestroy($im);



?>



If the script is called without an eMail address, it outputs a 2x2 transparent image.



To call the script to generate the eMail "user@home.com", the HTML tag would be:



<img src="email.php?addr=moc[dot]emoh[at]resu">



To 'encrypt' the eMail address to pass to the script, write the address backwards and replace "." with "[dot]" and "@" with "[at]". It's not the most ironclad protection, but it thwarts most casual eMail sniffers.

php dot net at mvoncken dot nl
14-Feb-2003 04:18


A simple example:

To make one line of text fit in the image.



<?php

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

$string = "spam@mvoncken.nl";                                              

$font   = 4;

$width  = ImageFontWidth($font) * strlen($string);

$height = ImageFontHeight($font);



$im = @imagecreate ($width,$height);

$background_color = imagecolorallocate ($im, 255, 255, 255); //white background

$text_color = imagecolorallocate ($im, 0, 0,0);//black text

imagestring ($im, $font, 0, 0,  $string, $text_color);

imagepng ($im);

?>



I use something like this for spamprotection of my visitors (pass userid as an url-parameter for this php)

aholmes84 at hotmail dot com
08-Nov-2002 01:25


When setting the font, any integer less than 1 defaults to 1, and any integer greater than 5 defaults to 5.

deejay_world at yahoo dot com
10-Jun-2002 09:25


Width ImageString, the strings you draw are not automatically wrapped width the edge of the image. You may use this function to automatically wrap them:



function ImageStringWrap($image, $font, $x, $y, $text, $color, $maxwidth)

{

    $fontwidth = ImageFontWidth($font);

    $fontheight = ImageFontHeight($font);



    if ($maxwidth != NULL) {

        $maxcharsperline = floor($maxwidth / $fontwidth);

        $text = wordwrap($text, $maxcharsperline, "\n", 1);

      }



    $lines = explode("\n", $text);

    while (list($numl, $line) = each($lines)) {

        ImageString($image, $font, $x, $y, $line, $color);

        $y += $fontheight;

      }

}



So, in particular, if you want to wrap a text with the edge of the Image, you may do:

ImageStringWrap($img, $font, 0, $y, $text, $color, ImageSX($img) );

bob dot brown at opus dot co dot nz
02-Apr-2002 05:59


If you find that you are getting two characters on the end of your imageString that look like a Y and an upside down L then they're probably representations of CR/LF.  Try trim()ing the string before outputting it.  (I was sooo sure this was a bug <g>)

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