{"id":1356,"date":"2018-01-19T19:22:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T19:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goofy-trucks.flywheelsites.com\/image-creation-with-php-page-2\/"},"modified":"2018-01-19T19:24:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T19:24:43","slug":"image-creation-with-php-page-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phpbuilder.com\/image-creation-with-php-page-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Image Creation With PHP Page 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Rasmus Lerdorf<\/div>\n
on July 30, 2000<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\n
\nThe above script would be called with a tag like this from a page:
\n<IMG SRC=\"button.php3?s=36&text=PHP+is+Cool\"><\/tt><\/div>\n
\nAnd it looks like this: \"Php.<\/div>\n
\nThe ‘s’ argument sets the font size and the button auto-scales itself to match. <\/div>\n
\nHere it is again with s=18:
\n\"PHP<\/div>\n
\nNote that I draw first a black rectangle and then a white rectangle slightly offset to create
\na 3D look. This might be a little hard to see on a light background, but you would adjust your
\ncolours appropriately. And then I do the same with the actual font. I first draw a black version
\nand then slightly offset draw a white version of the string on top. You can of course play around with
\nthe spacing and colours to get the exact effect you want.<\/div>\n
\nOk, so how can you do this on your site? You need to make sure that your PHP setup has both GD and TTF
\nsupport. See the PHP FAQ<\/a> for links to these libraries. It can be
\na little tricky getting both GD and TTF support compiled into PHP. I suggest copying libgd.a to \/usr\/local\/lib
\nand the gd*.h files to \/usr\/local\/include and just do a standard ‘make install’ for the FreeTTF library which
\nshould stick the appropriate files under \/usr\/local\/lib and \/usr\/local\/include. If you are on Solaris and using
\nthe shared library version of libttf, then you may see an error when you build Apache that says that it can’t
\nfind libttf.so. If this is the case, edit the src\/modules\/php3\/libphp3.module file and just before the “-lttf”
\nadd -R\/usr\/local\/lib -L\/usr\/local\/lib. Make sure you do a ‘make clean’ before trying to rebuild Apache and things
\nshould work ok.\n<\/div>\n
\n\"You can do some very neat things with this.
\n\"This one
\nis just a variation on the above script where I draw a single black letter on a white background. The font itself is
\ncalled “Riot Act” and I found it on
\nhttp:\/\/rover.wiesbaden.netsurf.de\/~kikita\/<\/a>. You can use just
\nabout any TTF font. If you have a Windows box sitting around, you can “borrow” any of the .TTF files
\nin your Windows font directory, or look around on the Net on sites like the one above and download some. Have fun
\nwith it and if you do interesting things with it, let people here know.<\/div>\n
\n–Rasmus\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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By Rasmus Lerdorf on July 30, 2000 The above script would be called with a tag like this from a page: <IMG SRC=”button.php3?s=36&text=PHP+is+Cool”> And it looks like this: . The ‘s’ argument sets the font size and the button auto-scales itself to match. Here it is again with s=18: Note… <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phpbuilder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phpbuilder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phpbuilder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phpbuilder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phpbuilder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phpbuilder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181,"href":"https:\/\/phpbuilder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions\/2181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phpbuilder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phpbuilder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phpbuilder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}