strlen with imagemagick

[jen2swt]

Hi all
First time here and I'm just learning PHP...

I am making a generator using imagemagick and I'm trying to use strlen. When a user enters their name, I want it to use a smaller font size if it's over a certain amount of characters and vice versa...

I can't seem to get what I'm doing wrong.

Here is my code

$name = $_POST['name'];

if(strlen($name) < 10) { $fontsize = '55px'; }
if(strlen($name) > 10) { $fontsize = '50px'; }

Here is my imagemagick code:

exec("".$pathIM."convert -quality ".$quality." -font pealindseyunicase.ttf -pointsize ".$fontsize." -fill deepskyblue -draw \"text 70,70 '".$_POST['name']."'\" $finalimage $finalimage");

I've tried it without the -pointsize, with and without " and '
Not sure what I'm doing wrong...

Any help and idea?

Thanks so much

[dagon]

why exec and not the php extension?

Image Processing (ImageMagick)

[jen2swt]

Well, I just started working with Imagemagick code, not the php side of it, so that's un touched territory there,lol...

[dagon]

your clearly using php, it would be easier using the php extension than the Imagemagick binary