create and image with text works locally but not online...

quinrou

I have this script and it works fine locally but as soon as i upload it breaks.

What happen once it's online is the image (800x600) gets created but not the text. however locally the text gets created... The font is there on the server at the right place.

Has anyone got any ideas?

thanks
Seb

<?php
$pic=ImageCreate(800,600);
$colBG=ImageColorAllocate($pic,255,255,255);
$col1=ImageColorAllocate($pic,0,0,0);

$nomalFont = "arialbd.ttf";

imagettftext($pic, 29, 0, 100, 200, $col1, $nomalFont ,"some text");

ImageJPEG($pic,"pic.jpg",120);
ImageDestroy($pic);
?>

weekender

[man]imagettftext[/man] requires the freetype library (http://www.freetype.org/), which i'm guessing you have on your local install, but not on your server

Test to see if you have the imagettftext function (using [man]function_exists[/man]), and if you don't, use [man]imagestring[/man]

adam

quinrou

weekender,

thanks for the quick answer. Indeed you were correct freetype isn't installed and imagestring worked.

However I have to use a specific font to write those images so i guess I'm going to have to install that freetype library

thanks

weekender

yeah, if the text is dynamic, you will need to install freetype.

If the text is static, you can have images (transparent gif's or png's) for the text, and overlay these over your background image.

cheers, adam

quinrou

yeah that would have been a good idea but the text is dynamic.