Saving Images as a file

[Anon]

Hi, im still pretty new to php and i need some assistance please. I have a script that creates an image (the user selects the text for the image and it displays on the image) the user also gets to name the image. I would like the image that the user just created to be saved on the server so the user can email that image out to people. How do i save the image as a file on the server using the name ($image_name) that the user typed in. Thanks for any help

[[deleted]]

Just read the manual.
For ex:

ImageCreateFromJPEG
(3.0.16 - 3.0.18 only, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0)

ImageCreateFromJPEG -- Create a new image from file or URL
Description

int imagecreatefromjpeg (string filename)

Just give it a filename and it will write the iamge to disk.

[Anon]

use the "copy" command:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.copy.php

example of how I have used it:
if ($form_data1 !== "none") {
$rest = substr($form_data1_name, -3);
copy($form_data1, "images/" . $HTTP_POST_VARS["speaker_id"] . "small." . $rest);
}

Hope this helps!

[Anon]

vincent, i appreciate you help tremoundsly, but i am still a bit confused. if i have this code:

$im = ImageCreate(800, 300);
ImageFill($im, 0, 0, $back_color);
ImageString($im, $line1size, $begin1, 20, "$line1text", $string_color);
Imagejpeg($im);

And i have a variable $name, that the user inputted for this image. I want to save the image in the directory /usr/local/www/gift_certs/ with $name as its name.

I read everything on Imagecreatefromgpeg, but it did not help me.

[Anon]

Thank, i am very appreciative of your help but what am i coping, all i've done is generated an image and displayed it on the browser. Now i want to save the image that was just generated as a file

[[deleted]]

Feck, I gave you the wrong link.
it should ofcourse be the imagejpg function:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imagejpeg.php

you can just enter the filename after the $im:

int imagejpeg (int im [, string filename [, int quality]])

so in your case it would be:
Imagejpeg($im,'/usr/local/www/gift_certs/'.$name);