GD and Fonts

Shroder

I'm trying to get some fonts to work with GD right now.

The folder is in a subfolder within the same directory the script is in. I tried pointing to the font within the folder but it doesn't seem to be seeing it. I'm using imagettftext();

Error logs just tell me it can't open the font file. So if I have a fonts folder in the same director of my script how do I refer to it?

weekender

show us some code

Shroder

This is what I have:

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

if(!isset($_GET['text1']) || !isset($_GET['font1']) || $_GET['text1'] == null || $_GET['font1'] == null) {
print_r($_GET);
//header("LOCATION:".$referer);
exit;
}

  $ftext = $_GET['text1'];
  $font1 = $_GET['font1'];

  $hex = explode('-', $_GET['color1']);
  $c1 = $hex[0];
  $c2 = $hex[1];
  $c3 = $hex[2];

/*
create canvas
*/

$im = imagecreate(600,75);
$can_background = imagecolorallocate($im, 255,255,255);

/*
Check for shadowing
*/

  if(isset($_GET['shadowcolor1']) && $_GET['shadowcolor1'] != null) {
 	$hex = explode('-', $_GET['shadowcolor1']);
 	$s1 = $hex[0];
 	$s2 = $hex[1];
 	$s3 = $hex[2];
 	$shadow = imagecolorallocate($im, $s1,$s2,$s3);

imagettftext($im, 50, 0, 24, 52, $shadow, $font1, $ftext);
imagettftext($im, 50, 0, 23, 51, $shadow, $font1, $ftext);
 }


  $fcolor = imagecolorallocate($im, $c1,$c2,$c3);




  imagettftext($im, 50, 0, 20, 50, $fcolor, $font1, $ftext);

  imagejpeg($im);
  imagedestroy($im);

weekender

ok i was hoping to see a value for $font1 - it should be along the lines of "/fontdir/fontname.ttf"

from the manual page on [man]imagettftext[/man]

when fontfile does not begin with a leading '/', '.ttf' will be appended to the filename and the the library will attempt to search for that filename along a library-defined font path

ie you have to start the font value with a / or it will just search through the system directories for a matching font file.

Shroder

The font dir I had in the script I posted was a poor example.
I was playing around with the paths and that's the one I ended with.

I just tried /fontdir/font.ttf and that doesn't work. That's what I thought it would be but it just doesn't seem to be working.

Do I need any escape characters?

This is what I have with your recomendation.

 $font1 = "/php_fonts/".$_GET['font1'];

Your help has been much appreciated. Thank You.