Quick question

darrensw

I want to use ImageTTFText to create text in the middle of a html page.

The problem I have is that when i try to call the header:

Header ("Content-type: image/gif");

I am told, and rightly so, that i can't add the header as output has started.

How would I get around this?

Also, how can i go through this procedure and save the files to a certain DIR instead.

Thanks for all help.

Regards

Darren

Anon

you dont use the header() to output the image to the browser. but when your image creation is done, then use, ImageGIF() to output the image to the browser.

and then finally use copy() to copy the image to the server.

darrensw

I use this at the top of my page to prevent the header issue:

Header ("Content-type: image/gif");
$im = imagecreate (215, 60);
$white = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 255, 255, 255);
$black = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 0, 0, 0);
ImageTTFText ($im, 20, 0, 10, 20, $black, "/home/artistes/ttfonts/ARIBLK.TTF",
$acctname);

and then this in my html code:

<?
ImageGif ($im);
?>

It just gives me this:

GIF87a×<¢ÿÿÿ???¿¿¿,×<ÿºÜþ0ÊI«½8ëÍ»ÿ`(Ždižhª®lë¾p,Ïtmßx®Hèª ‚.·?ŒrÒj/Îz_º,ºÜþ0ÊI«½8ëmQèr

etc. etc. etc. instead of the image.

Am i misunderstanding?

Thanks

Darren

Anon

Try this: save all your php into a file called myimage.php

-----------------------myimage.php:
<?Header (\\"Content-type: image/gif\\");
$im = imagecreate (215, 60);
$white = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 255, 255, 255);
$black = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 0, 0, 0);
ImageTTFText ($im, 20, 0, 10, 20, $black, \\"/home/artistes/ttfonts/ARIBLK.TTF\\",
$acctname);
ImageGif ($im);
?>
----------------//

the in another php page go:

------------------------callimage.php
<img src=\\"myimage.php\\">
---------------------//

Anon

have you got php3_gd.dll installed? and what version of PHP are you using?

apart from this i cant see anything wrong with it.. sorry

darrensw

PHP Version 4.0.3pl1

GD Support enabled
GD Version between 1.3 and 1.6.1
FreeType Support enabled
FreeType Linkage with TTF library
GIF Support enabled

give it a try and see if it does it for you...simply use my code in a html page and see if you can spit the image out later down the line

darrensw

Thanks, this kind of works...it won't read the var $acctname although the rest of the page does...

Also, when I try the following it does not work...

copy ($im,'/home/artistes/public_html/images/lolo.gif');

Any ideas?

Thanks again

Darren