I just read a wicked tutorial on DiscoMoose on how to add text onto an existing png file and now I'm ready to make my next widget! it's going to be a custom link box with a variety of button styles to choose from. Choose any text and the button will be displayed with the text on there.
It might save a lot of trouble for newbies who don't have experience in coding or if someones best image app is MSPaint!
here's my first test to see if I could run the code..
it is called with http://www.fiddyp.co.uk/internal/testingphp/png.php?text=woot!
here is the code for png.php
PHP:
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// load the image from the file specified:
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$im = imagecreatefrompng("button.png");
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// if there's an error, stop processing the page:
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if(!$im)
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{
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}
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// define some colours to use with the image
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$yellow = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 0);
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$black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
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// get the width and the height of the image
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$width = imagesx($im);
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$height = imagesy($im);
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// draw a black rectangle across the bottom, say, 20 pixels of the image:
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//imagefilledrectangle($im, 0, ($height-20) , $width, $height, $black);
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// now we want to write in the centre of the rectangle:
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$font = 4; // store the int ID of the system font we're using in $font
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$text = $_GET['text']; // store the text we're going to write in $text
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// calculate the left position of the text:
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// finally, write the string:
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imagestring($im,$font,$leftTextPos-1, $height-35,$text,$black);
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imagestring($im, $font, $leftTextPos, $height-36, $text, $yellow);
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// output the image
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// tell the browser what we're sending it
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// output the image as a png
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imagepng($im);
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// tidy up
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imagedestroy($im);
yey!
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I had some fun today programming a bot, or, I like to call it a dog. More accurately a MyBlogLogDogg.
phew! I just made 2 new widgets to show the UK and Euromillions Lottery results, it took all of 20 minutes! hehe, these widgets are getting easier and easier to make!