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catalinus

The problem: i want to display the date in a graphical way, as in jpeg images.
I have done a function that grabs the date in a variable ( $ date). Next thing to go on, displaying it:

header("content-Type: image/pjpeg");
$img = ImageCreate(9 * strlen($date) + 1, 17);

$bg_color = ImageColorAllocate($img, 255 ,255, 255);
$text = ImageColorAllocate($img, 0, 0, 0);

ImageString($img,5,1,0,$date,$text);
ImageJpeg($img);
ImageDestroy($img);

This will display the date with the default font, in black, one line only. It is something like this:

April 4 2003

This is not quite esthetical. I want to display it with a particular font, on two lines, aligned to right, like this:

2003
April 4

Actually i want to format somehow the text in $date variable.
I have tried with ImageTTFText, but up to now, no results.

Does anyone have experienced such a situation?

y6y6y6

If you include in your $date variable the string "\r\n", the ImageTTFText function will output the text with the return and line break. But you'll have to put that in manually.

catalinus

Nope, doesnt work. It works only if the text i want to put in the image is a string; ex:

ImageString($img,5,1,0,$date,"See, the text in here \r\n is a string");

If the text is taken from a variable, as in my case, it prints some strange characters, but it doesnt add a carriage return or line feed. Thanks anyway. I will separate the year from the month/day and i will put it in 2 imagestring functions.

I was wondering if is a function which can automatically do that.

y6y6y6

well, I don't know what to tell you. It works for me with ImageTTFText(). Haven't tried with ImageString().

I've used this type of thing quite a bit with solid results:

$maxcharsperline = floor($WrapLength / $CharWidth);
$text = wordwrap($text, $maxcharsperline, "\r\n", 1);
imagettftext($im, $FontSize, 0, 10, 20, 0-$black, $font, $text);