PHP: PNG creation with PHP

PNG creation with PHP

Example #1 PNG creation with PHP

<?php

header("Content-type: image/png");
$string = $_GET['text'];
$im     = imagecreatefrompng("images/button1.png");
$orange = imagecolorallocate($im, 220, 210, 60);
$px     = (imagesx($im) - 7.5 * strlen($string)) / 2;
imagestring($im, 3, $px, 9, $string, $orange);
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);

?>

This example would be called from a page with a tag like:

<img
   src="button.php?text=text">

. The above button.php script then takes this "text" string and overlays it on top of a base image which in this case is "images/button1.png" and outputs the resulting image. This is a very convenient way to avoid having to draw new button images every time you want to change the text of a button. With this method they are dynamically generated.

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viishalkumarsahu at gmail dot com ¶

8 years ago


Function to create random png images when requested for example...
<img src="create_image.php?s=008080_F_1000_200&t=Sample%20Image%20Drawn%20By%20PHP" alt="GD Library Example Image" >

here is create_image.php
<?php
$setting = isset($_GET['s']) ? $_GET['s'] : "FFF_111_100_100";
$setting = explode("_",$setting );
$img = array();

switch ($n = count($setting)) {
    case $n > 4 :
    case 3:
        $setting[3] = $setting[2];
    case 4:
        $img['width'] = (int) $setting[2];
        $img['height'] = (int) $setting[3];
    case 2:
        $img['color'] = $setting[1];
        $img['background'] = $setting[0];
        break;
    default:
        list($img['background'],$img['color'],$img['width'],$img['height']) = array('F','0',100,100);
        break;
}

$background = explode(",",hex2rgb($img['background']));
$color = explode(",",hex2rgb($img['color']));
$width = empty($img['width']) ? 100 : $img['width'];
$height = empty($img['height']) ? 100 : $img['height'];
$string = (string) isset($_GET['t']) ? $_GET['t'] : $width ."x". $height;

header("Content-Type: image/png");
$image = @imagecreate($width, $height)
    or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");

$background_color = imagecolorallocate($image, $background[0], $background[1], $background[2]);
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($image, $color[0], $color[1], $color[2]);

imagestring($image, 5, 5, 5, $string, $text_color);
imagepng($image);
imagedestroy($image);

function hex2rgb($hex) {
    // Copied
   $hex = str_replace("#", "", $hex);

   switch (strlen($hex)) {
       case 1:
           $hex = $hex.$hex;
       case 2:
          $r = hexdec($hex);
          $g = hexdec($hex);
          $b = hexdec($hex);
           break;

       case 3:
          $r = hexdec(substr($hex,0,1).substr($hex,0,1));
          $g = hexdec(substr($hex,1,1).substr($hex,1,1));
          $b = hexdec(substr($hex,2,1).substr($hex,2,1));
           break;

       default:
          $r = hexdec(substr($hex,0,2));
          $g = hexdec(substr($hex,2,2));
          $b = hexdec(substr($hex,4,2));
           break;
   }

   $rgb = array($r, $g, $b);
   return implode(",", $rgb); 
}

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