PHP "Framed" Image Creation

[lsuperguy]

What I'm trying to do is this: There is a main thumbnail picture and I have 8 mini pictures of frames (pics for all corners, and small pics for repeating to make the sides). I want to have each of the frames pictures wrap around the main thumbnail to create a final picture of a simulated framed thumbnail.

There must be a way to do this with PHP. I'm looking into imageMagick to see if that might solve the problem, but I was interest to see if anyone here as ever done something like this or has an idea on a solution.

Thanks

[Roger_Ramjet]

Yes, withCSS like it should be done.

[lsuperguy]

Yeah, I know. In fact I'm doing it now with CSS. I'm looking for a solution that will produce a finished image. Something along the line of <img src="[script with get variables]" /> and it will display the correct montaged image.

[Weedpacket]

Certainly. Speaking from experience, I've found PHP's [man]image[/man] functions to have everything necessary for framing an image, sticking a logo on it, and stuff like that. It's just a matter of thinking about how the bits are to be laid out (e.g. a loop to walk down the sides laying out copies of the repeating motif in steps of however many pixels the motif is tall).