Making images on the fly

[Anon]

Hi,

Is this actually possible in php:

I have an image created on my pc (a fantasy map of some lands) and I upload it, then I want to insert some text into that map on the fly. (The names of some city's for example)

So actually I want php to do:
Get the map (not overwrite the existing map)
Put some text on it
Make the new image in a file.
Display the new image

Can anyone explain me how to do this (if possible)

Thanks,

Alain

[smarlowe]

you need libdg (the gd library from boutell.com) which is included in most linux distros and php picks up and configures for automagically when it's built.

Look up the image functions in the PHP manual after that. It's really pretty easy, and there's a couple of nice examples on the page:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php

[frog_]

The first thing I really think of is CSS layering. Webmonkey has a really good tutorial for that...beginning CSS, i think.