gd graphics library

__greg

i just started using a version of php with the gd graphics library installed and i can't really get it to work.

i tried using this:

<?php
header ("Content-type: image/png");
$im = @imagecreate (50, 100)
    or die ("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
$background_color = imagecolorallocate ($im, 255, 255, 255);
$text_color = imagecolorallocate ($im, 233, 14, 91);
imagestring ($im, 1, 5, 5,  "A Simple Text String", $text_color);
imagepng ($im);
imagedestroy ($im);
?>

and this is the result:
http://66.129.99.219/gdtest.php

any idea why that's happening and how to fix it?

Boudga

Here's a working image on my site that you can use as reference...

<?php

header("Content-type: image/png");

$totalwidth = 450;

$totalheight = 40;

$image = imagecreate( $totalwidth,$totalheight );

$red = imagecolorallocate($image, 255,0,0);

$black = imagecolorallocate($image, 0,0,0);

$font = "/home/sites/home/web/times.ttf";

ImageTTFText ($im, 20, 0, 10, 20, $white, "./arial.ttf",

          "Testing... Omega: &#937;");

//imageTTFtext( $image, 50, 0, 20, 200, $black, $font, "Atec" );

//imageline( $image, 450, 30, 0, 30, $black );

imagepng($image);

ImageDestroy ($image);

ctimmer

Try placing the:
$im = @imagecreate (50, 100) ...
before the 'header' function. The header tells it to expect png data and you may be sending it plain text.

__greg

awesome. it worked. thank you guys