Script Needed

[Pimpalicious Nerd]

'Ello mates. I'm currently learning PHP from a book that I got at a
Barnes and Noble (the one near times square in new york; one of my
friends got kicked out for somehow managing to move ALL the bibles to
the fiction section...lol...but that's another story). Its a good
book, very easy to learn with, but the only trouble has been my
attention span and neverending lust for video games.

XD

Anyways, I was browsing through some forums and I saw a signature from
sloganizer.com and thought immediately "Must...have...now" so I went to
google (:huzzah:) and I found a PHP script that was supposed to do the
same thing. Unfortunately it doesn't want to work for me and I'm not
advanced enough yet to debug the code.

So...Can someone give me a script that allows you to have dynamic text
put onto an defined image? Also, comments in the code explaining what
does what would be nice and would help me in learning PHP. :)

Thanks
-- Pimpalicious Nerd (Forizzle Foshizzle) (XD)

[Erwin Moller]

Pimpalicious Nerd wrote:

Hi,

'Ello mates. I'm currently learning PHP from a book that I got at a
Barnes and Noble (the one near times square in new york; one of my
friends got kicked out for somehow managing to move ALL the bibles to
the fiction section...lol...but that's another story).
LOL, excactly where they should be. :-)

<snip>

So...Can someone give me a script that allows you to have dynamic text
put onto an defined image? Also, comments in the code explaining what
does what would be nice and would help me in learning PHP. :)

Well, actually, that is NOT completely the same on every machine.

I am going to tell you how to proceed, not giving a ready-to-go script.
You'll have the most fun making this run by yourself, and it is hard to give
you a ready-to-go script without knowing anything about your
machine/setup/php.ini/graphicslibraries/etc.
Your PHP needs to have access to some kind of imagelibs.
On GNU/Linux the most popular is the GD-library.

Having that installed and configured well will make your life immensely more
easy.
Try phpinfo() to see what PHP has to say about it.
If you see somewhere some mention of GD, you are probably ready-set-go to
start coding.
If not, just go to php.net and search a little for help on GD.

If you are on a W$ machine: Who knows (not me). I don't even know if GD-libs
have been ported to W$. If not, I am sure you can find some equivalent.

This is a good place to start: http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php

IF you have your imagelibs up and running (try some examplescript as can be
found on php.net), you just look through the image-functionlist for
functions you need.

The following steps will be needed somehow:
- Open your image
- add some dynamic text to it
- safe/deliver the image to the client.

One warning: If you are using huge images you can hit the 8MB internal
memory limit of PHP.
That can be ajusted in PHP.ini, if you have access to that.

Thanks
-- Pimpalicious Nerd (Forizzle Foshizzle) (XD)

Hope this helps!

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[Pimpalicious Nerd]

Erwin Moller wrote:

friends got kicked out for somehow managing to move ALL the bibles to
the fiction section...lol...but that's another story).
LOL, excactly where they should be. :-)

I completely and totally agree. XD My take on the issue is that there
is a "God" so to speak, most definately more likely to be some kind of
advanced form of ascended intelligence, though sometimes I even doubt
that too when I think about the Tsunami that just happened (more like
six months) which makes me think "either there isn't a 'god' or that
'god' is just too damned irresponsible to intervene and prevent deaths
like we saw with this, and that I feel that the fact that billions of
people still to this day worship some random carpenter from _TWO
FRACKING THOUSAND AND FIVE YEARS AGO_ who did a bunch of nice things
that were "miracles" to be a bloody pile of BS. But, lets not get me
started on what I think of Bible Thumpers, especially the ones who
protest things like Harry Potter (OH NOSS ITS GUNNA KORRUPT OUR
CHEELDRENZZ!!!1!11!!1 (which the only response to that can be, "GET A
MOTHERFRACKING LIFE DAMNIT!!!")) and _STAR WARS_ saying that because
they (they being all the Jedis and whatnot IN THE _MOVIE_... Keyword
there too.) say that they have "I have the force" because it means "I
have gods powers yayyyyy!!!!"...yeah. See... I went off for a few
lines. *cough* Well, actually, that is NOT completely the same on every machine.

I am going to tell you how to proceed, not giving a ready-to-go script.
You'll have the most fun making this run by yourself, and it is hard to give
you a ready-to-go script without knowing anything about your
machine/setup/php.ini/graphicslibraries/etc. Indeed. :)

Your PHP needs to have access to some kind of imagelibs.
On GNU/Linux the most popular is the GD-library.

The website that I'd be running this off of is hosted on a remote
location and I can access it and find out using the phpinfo(); command
whether or not it will work.

And thanks for the help too. And before when I said I was still
learning...I meant like still playing around with the basics like the
echo(); commands and playing around with connecting to DBs on my compy.
Before I engage in this though I should finish the book. Lol

-- Pimpalicious Nerd (Forizzle Foshizzle)

[Erwin Moller]

Pimpalicious Nerd wrote:

<snipped some ranting about misleaded souls, to which I totaly agree by the
way :P>

Well, actually, that is NOT completely the same on every machine.

I am going to tell you how to proceed, not giving a ready-to-go script.
You'll have the most fun making this run by yourself, and it is hard to
give you a ready-to-go script without knowing anything about your
machine/setup/php.ini/graphicslibraries/etc. Indeed. :)

Your PHP needs to have access to some kind of imagelibs.
On GNU/Linux the most popular is the GD-library.

The website that I'd be running this off of is hosted on a remote
location and I can access it and find out using the phpinfo(); command
whether or not it will work.

And thanks for the help too. And before when I said I was still
learning...I meant like still playing around with the basics like the
echo(); commands and playing around with connecting to DBs on my compy.
Before I engage in this though I should finish the book. Lol

Ok, be sure not to skip www.php.net.
Allthough it cannot replace a good book for educational purposes, it
contains LOTS of very usefull information.
Just browse around for an hour, and you'll come back all by yourself after
that. :-)

Best of luck, and enjoy.
Please send my regards to your (fired) friend. :-)

Regards,
Erwin Moller

-- Pimpalicious Nerd (Forizzle Foshizzle)

[Michael Vilain]

In article <11*********************@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups. com>,
"Pimpalicious Nerd" <Pi**************@gmail.com> wrote:

Erwin Moller wrote:

friends got kicked out for somehow managing to move ALL the bibles to
the fiction section...lol...but that's another story).

LOL, excactly where they should be. :-)

I completely and totally agree. XD My take on the issue is that there
is a "God" so to speak, most definately more likely to be some kind of
advanced form of ascended intelligence, though sometimes I even doubt
that too when I think about the Tsunami that just happened (more like
six months) which makes me think "either there isn't a 'god' or that
'god' is just too damned irresponsible to intervene and prevent deaths
like we saw with this, and that I feel that the fact that billions of
people still to this day worship some random carpenter from _TWO
FRACKING THOUSAND AND FIVE YEARS AGO_ who did a bunch of nice things
that were "miracles" to be a bloody pile of BS. But, lets not get me
started on what I think of Bible Thumpers, especially the ones who
protest things like Harry Potter (OH NOSS ITS GUNNA KORRUPT OUR
CHEELDRENZZ!!!1!11!!1 (which the only response to that can be, "GET A
MOTHERFRACKING LIFE DAMNIT!!!")) and _STAR WARS_ saying that because
they (they being all the Jedis and whatnot IN THE _MOVIE_... Keyword
there too.) say that they have "I have the force" because it means "I
have gods powers yayyyyy!!!!"...yeah. See... I went off for a few
lines. *cough*

"One man's religious beliefs are another's belly laugh."--Lazarus Long

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