Ok... I went ahead and just merged two scripts I found that will do that job for you.
Take a look at the code here.
Place this file on your server-- with a php extension, of course. You will also need to place a true-type font file in the same directory (I used arial), as well as your quote file (called quotes.txt, with one quote per line). For best results, also make a subdirectory called "cache" which will store already-created quote images.
The end result can be seen right here.
Hope that helps...
well, to get this to work you will need your own webhost that has PHP support.
Put the quotes.php file there, you true-type font file, and your quotes.txt file there.
Once it's there, you just use the full URL for the quotes.php file on your server in your image tag.
For instance, to place my random quote generator in your myspace area, you would you the following HTML:
[ img src="http://www.castechint.com/quotes.php" ]
(replace the [] brackets with < and > )
Put the quotes.php file there, you true-type font file, and your quotes.txt file there.
Once it's there, you just use the full URL for the quotes.php file on your server in your image tag.
For instance, to place my random quote generator in your myspace area, you would you the following HTML:
[ img src="http://www.castechint.com/quotes.php" ]
(replace the [] brackets with < and > )
It's a font file. You can find them in your Windows directory... usually C:\WINDOWS\FONTS
For the script above, I used Arial (with a filename of arial.ttf). If you choose a different font, change the name of the font file used in the quotes.php file.
For the script above, I used Arial (with a filename of arial.ttf). If you choose a different font, change the name of the font file used in the quotes.php file.
save text file with a .php extension and upload to server. Check
create quotes.txt with one quote per line and upload in same directory. check
place arial TTF in the same directory. Check
create 'cache' sub directory. check.
no quotes though. hmm....
http://www.ourmailgroup.com/quotes/quotes.php
create quotes.txt with one quote per line and upload in same directory. check
place arial TTF in the same directory. Check
create 'cache' sub directory. check.
no quotes though. hmm....
http://www.ourmailgroup.com/quotes/quotes.php
works for me, but i wonder if there is a way to automatically insert breaks when making the picture? longer quotes create an extremely long picture.
There sure is...
Right after this line in the code:
$box = @ImageTTFBBox($font_size,0,$font_file,$text) ;
You can check the prospective width of the image by looking at the value of abs(box[2] - box[0]).
If it is above a certain width, then simply use your favorite word-wrapping algorithm to split it up into two or more seperate strings. Then alter the height of the created image to be abs(box[5] - $dip)) * $number_of_lines .
Now draw each of the new text strings onto the image independently.
I probably think he means that it works for him running off of his server.
I'm not sure why it isn't working for you... you might need to take a peek at your server log files and see if you're getting any strange error messages.
Also, try verifying the PHP is installed and working properly by writing a simple PHP script (called hello.php) with this single line:
<?php echo("hello world!"); ?>
And see if you get anything when you access it via its URL....
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