NYCPHP Meetup

[tedd]

At 3:45 PM -0500 7/12/06, Andrew Kamm wrote:
>Hello all -- I'm having a problem with image creation with PHP and even though it appears my bases are covered, I can't get it resolved. I ran gd_info() and it appears to be alright for what I need (BTW, this is a Win server w/ PHP5.1.4, but I've also tried it on a Linux box and got the same results):
>
>Array
>(
>    [GD Version] => bundled (2.0.28 compatible)
>    [FreeType Support] => 1
>    [FreeType Linkage] => with freetype
>    [T1Lib Support] => 1
>    [GIF Read Support] => 1
>    [GIF Create Support] => 1
>    [JPG Support] => 1
>    [PNG Support] => 1
>    [WBMP Support] => 1
>    [XPM Support] =>
>    [XBM Support] => 1
>    [JIS-mapped Japanese Font Support] =>
>)
>
>I've tried several different code snippets and get the same result:
>
>In Firefox:
>"The image "http://example.com/scripts/test.php" cannot be displayed, because it contains errors."
>
>In Safari:
>Nothing -- but if you right-click anywhere on the screen it gives the same dialogue box you'd get if you right-clicked an image.
>
>As an example of the code I've been trying, I used the one below (from PHP.net). I've made sure there is no additional whitespace outside of the php tags.
>
><?php
>header("Content-type: image/png");
>$im = @imagecreate(100, 50)
>   or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
>$background_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
>$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 233, 14, 91);
>imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5,  "A Simple Text String", $text_color);
>imagepng($im);
>imagedestroy($im);
>?>
>
>Any ideas? All the similar problem/solutions I've found on Google seem to relate to people having whitespace before the <?php tag.
>
>thanks!
>
>--
>Andrew Kamm

Andrew:

Your code runs "as-is" just fine -- see:

http://xn--ovg.com/text/

The text is a tad small, but it works.

tedd
-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://sperling.com  http://ancientstones.com  http://earthstones.com