Php image

[Mahony]

Okay here it is:
I want to load text from a .txt on the web and put it on to an image.
Php is not my area of expertease
Could someone please help.
Thank you.

--Mahony

[kows]

well, do you already have an image and want to add onto it, or do you want to dynamically create an image and put the text on it? i'm just going to assume you already have a picture, and so i'll work from that..

<?
    //set image and file paths
    $img_path = "image.png"; //image to add onto 
    $file_path = "text.txt"; //text file to open and add to image
    
    //open the base image 
    $img = imageCreateFromPNG($img_path);

    //make the colors to be used
    $black = imageColorAllocate($img, 0, 0, 0); //100% black for text
    
    //open the text file for reading
    $fopen = fopen($file_path, "r");
    //read the text file completely and store it in $text
    $text = fread($fopen, filesize($file_path));
    fclose($fopen);

    //*text properties*
      $font = "verdana.ttf"; //path to the font we're using
      $size = 12;            //text size
      $angle = 0;            //angle of text
      $pos['x'] = 65;        //position on the x axis
      $pos['y'] = 90;        //position on the y axis

    //add the text from the file to the image
    imageTTFText($img, $size, $angle, $pos['x'], $pos['y'], $black, $font, $text);

    //output the image to the browser
    imagePNG($img);    

    //destroy the image to restore memory
    imagedestroy($img);
?>

demo of this script:

this is the image it produces:


this is the original image:


this is the text file:
http://david.gamersepitome.net/files/php/text.txt

this is the font file:
http://david.gamersepitome.net/files/php/verdana.ttf

hope that can jump start you in some direction.. if you don't understand something in the script, ask for it to be explained.

[Mahony]

Thanks, that is a big help. I've been meaning to learn php for a while now, maybe I should learn :P

Edit: "$file_path = "text.txt"; //text file to open and add to image"

I tryed doing like http://www........com/file.txt

But it didn't work the file is not on my server. How would I do that?

Edit2:

[Mahony]

Okay didn't exactly work right, how can I change the script so it loads a php file not a text, http://rappingreindeer.co.uk/yes.php

[kows]

just change the file path to it and it will grab the text.. although, if it has HTML in that "yes.php", it will also grab that, so you'll have to remove the HTML or parse out the information you want.

[Mahony]

Here goes nothing


How exctly do I make it into a .png.

Edit