Several Images in One [Resolved]

I'm new to playing round with images in PHP so I was wondering if anyone could show me how I would have serveral images in the one generated image:
http://www.vbforums.com/attachment.p...postid=1636043

do you want to open images and then send them out to a browser in one file? you can do that..

do you want to create the images in PHP and then return them in one file? you can do that too..

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Originally posted by kows
do you want to open images and then send them out to a browser in one file? you can do that..

do you want to create the images in PHP and then return them in one file? you can do that too..

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First one....

Say I have 7 image files named: Pic1.png, Pic2.png, Pic3.png, .....
Then I want to create a image to be returned to the browser which contains the 7 images as shown in the attachment. The script will be actually be deciding which images go where but I don't need to worrie about that at the moment as I think I have that covered.

I'll try to make something for you then.. I'll just make an example of 3 images, just so you'll get the general idea.. it might take me a while because my internet is pretty slow right now.

ok, finished. I actually got it working on my first try, with minor bugs to fix, but it works perfectly now.. thought this would be a huge challenge, though.

This is just for 3 images, so you get the general idea, and I'm not doing all of your work.

PHP Code:

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<?
  //image merge script
  //     author: David Miles
  //     contact: [email][email protected][/email]

  //create an empty image to dump the images into
  $base = imageCreate(300, 40);
  //make a few temporary colors for debugging
  $black = imageColorAllocate($base, 0, 0, 0); //black
  $white = imageColorAllocate($base, 255, 255, 255); //white 
  //fill the image with black for easy debug in early stages
  imageRectangle($base, 0, 0, 300, 40, $black);

  //open the dump images
  $img1 = imageCreateFromPNG("img1.png");
  $img2 = imageCreateFromPNG("img2.png");
  $img3 = imageCreateFromPNG("img3.png");
  
  //copy the first image and place it in the 0,0 position
  imageCopy($base, $img1, 0, 0, 0, 0, imagesX($img1), imagesY($img1));
  //copy the second image and get the x coordinate by calculating first images width
  imageCopy($base, $img2, imagesX($img1), 0, 0, 0, imagesX($img2), imagesY($img2));
  //copy the third image and get the x coordinate by adding the first and second images' width
  imageCopy($base, $img3, imagesX($img1) + imagesX($img2), 0, 0, 0, imagesX($img3), imagesY($img3));
  
  //imagecopy(dst_im, src_im, dst_x, dst_y, src_x, src_y, src_w, src_h);
  
  //display the image
  imagePNG($base);
  imageDestroy($base);
?>

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I left in all of my debugging stuff I made to make sure I had it all working before I actually started adding images.. and anything else I added in to do things. I removed some irrelevant stuff that I was using to make sure I was actually making an image and it was showing up correctly.

Here's a working example of the script:
http://david.gamersepitome.net/files...y/img_copy.php

And the original images that I made for this:
http://david.gamersepitome.net/files..._copy/img1.png http://david.gamersepitome.net/files..._copy/img2.png http://david.gamersepitome.net/files..._copy/img3.png

Anyway.. Hope that helps you, and if you have any questions about my code, feel free to ask.

Thanx mate, just what I was after :D.