Creating Images

[Anon]

Hi,

I work for a magazine that has just hired me as online edirot. And to make my work a lot easier i thought i could create the mast-heads on-the-fly with php. All that the mastheads contain is a background colour and white/black text depending on the background colour.

The image would be 500width max and 50height max with anti-aliased text, helvitica font, bold and size 30. All i need to know is how to create the image, i can detect/change the test colour in a sub.

I have the gd and zlib loaded on my installation an i wondered if someone could tell me how i could do this in gif, jpg or png.

Thanks, And sorry its a lot of work...

Cheers,

Elfyn

[amcgrath]

You misspelled "editor", which is ironic considering your new job. 😉

I'm not too familiar with creating images, but would something like this work for you, or get you pointed in good direction?:

<?
$h = 50;
$w = 500;
$bg_red = 255;
$bg_grn = 255;
$bg_blu = 255;

$tx_red = 100;
$tx_grn = 20;
$tx_blu = 1;

header("Content-type:image/png");
$mast_head = @imagecreate($h,$w);
$bg_color = imagecolorallocate($im,$bg_red,$bg_grn,$bg_blu);
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im,$tx_red,$tx_grn,$tx_blu);
imagestring ($im,1,5,5, $your_mast_var_here,$text_color);
imagepng ($im);
?>