[RESOLVED] images, and fonts with php and linux

Writing , php script which creates a button etc.. how ever i get an error

putenv('GDFONTPATH=/usr/share/fonts/');
$fontname ='arial.TTf';

i think here i need to know the correct folder and name for a font under linux, the book gives me a windows reference so im guessing this one

// find out the size of the text at the font size
$bbox=imagettfbbox ($font_size, 0, $fontname, $button_text);

this way $fontname will be referenced correctly later on

thanks 🙂

what's the error?

if it is a hosted site, ask them where they have fonts, or you can just add your own in any dir that's convenient to you.

sorry for waisting your time mate, heres the solution anyway,

1 installed the relevant microsoft fonts using these two comands

$sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

then flushed the fonts by this command

$sudo fc-cache -fv

then referenced my php script to this path

putenv('GDFONTPATH=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts');

and this font

$fontname ='arial.ttf';