GD - tech forums Image

[Tkey]

You may, (or may not) have noticed the image i use in the new members area now and again. I'm getting pretty quick at creating them but, let's face it, it's getting a tad tedious.

I'm wondering if someone could shed some light on this one

Firstly, the codes.

PHP tfgenerate.php http://193.111.226.179/tfgenerate.php

Code of tfgenerate.php

<?php
header('Content-type: image/png');
$text = $_GET['text'];
$im = imagecreatefrompng ("tech forums.png");
$color = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
$font = 'font.ttf';
$fontsize = 24;
$size = imagettfbbox($fontsize, 0, $font, $text); //calculate the pixel of the string
$dx = (imagesx($im)) - (abs($size[2]-$size[0])) - 20; //calculate the location to start the text
imagettftext($im, $fontsize, 0, $dx, 35, $color, $font, $text);
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>

The fonts and raw PNG are in their reletive locations.

Now, we all know where I need things to go :P

Heres a sample:




Hoping CrazeD or someone can help me out

Cheers,

~ Tkey

[CrazeD]

So, what are you trying to do exactly? You want to create an image like the one you posted using PHP?

[Tkey]

yeah, I think iv got the basic code up there, just im not sure how to configure the colours and get it in the right place. It's definatly working since appending &text= works perfectly. Just..... in the wrong place

[Tkey]

Could you get ahold of any infomation on this CrazeD, or do you need some more info from me?

Cheers,

~ Tkey

[zedman3d]

Try using this to smooth the text (not 100% sure if it works on text or not):

PHP Code:

imageantialias($im, true); 


As for the rest, it should work like you use GET to retrieve the users name, and the generic statement that proceeds is already in the file.

Like:

PHP Code:

$allofthetext = "Hey ".$username.", Welcome to the forums..." 


[Tkey]

The text smoothing you suggested did nothing
I'm not quite sure why there is such a loss of quality, since the filetype is set to PNG and the file is a PNG.

Could this be something to do with the PHP running on my server?

Cheers,

~ Tkey

[CrazeD]

Sorry Tkey, been kind of busy.

And I still don't really know what you need help with. You seem to have code that works. Are you just trying to fix the fuzzy text?

[Tkey]

Sorry. Yes, basically I need to image quality fixing, then I need to sort out the positioning and colours to mach those I use in the image normally.

Cheers,

~ Tkey

[CrazeD]

Ok, so what is tech forums.png that you reference? I don't know which parts are image and which parts are text.

[zedman3d]

Okay dont go off at me, but i cant actually get that code to work. I have GD installed and everything but it throws errors galore. But obviously, its working for you so ill try to help.

Try keeping the AntiAliasing code i have. Even if its doing nothing, it cant make things worse.

Next, swap

PHP Code:

imagettftext($im, $fontsize, 0, $dx, 35, $color, $font, $text); 


for

PHP Code:

imagestring($im, 3, 0, 35, $text, $color) 


The 3 is a generic font, you can later change it with $font if it still looks odd and try it once more.