Need help with adding text to an image

[loba]

Hi,

I'm trying to learn how to use the imagettftext()

and i have tried to use a couple of the code examples but i cant seem to get any image.

Currently my code works like this..

<?php
// pic.php
$font = 'Arial Bold';
$value = '10000000';

$im = imagecreatefrompng("3_a.png") or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");

$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0); // text color R,G,B

imagettftext($im, 1, 0, 100, 100, $text_color, $font, $value);
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>

I'm using getting this image from <img src= etc..>

and when i take out the imagefttext(),
everything works out fine...

can someone teach me how to use this method properly and where i should place my font.ttf file? i currently have it in the same place as the above script..

the full path would be something like
http://etc../images/Arial Bold.ttf
and
http://etc../images/pic.php

misc info that might affect implementation -->

GD Support enabled
GD Version 1.6.2 or higher
FreeType Support enabled
FreeType Linkage with freetype
JPG Support enabled
PNG Support enabled
WBMP Support enabled

taken from phpinfo.php on a linux box

[Weedpacket]

I think $font is supposed to be the name of the font file, not the name of the font.

[loba]

Originally posted by Weedpacket
I think $font is supposed to be the name of the font file, not the name of the font.

yep but some of the tutorial mentioned that for gd libraries lower then 1.8, php will automatically concat *.ttf to the end of the file name..

anyway, i have tried with Arial Bold.ttf too and it doesnt seem to work also..

[Weedpacket]

Try renaming the file to something that doesn't have a space in it.

[loba]

tried naming it too...doesnt work..