DJ Mike's Tutorials: PHP

ImageMagick Functions

Imagick::writeImage

Description:

bool Imagick::writeImage ([ string $filename ] )

Writes an image to the specified filename. If the filename parameter is NULL, the image is written to the filename set by Imagick::ReadImage() or Imagick::SetImageFilename().

Parameters:

filename

The file name of the image that is generated. The directory of the output image has to have permissions set so that PHP can write to it.

Return Values

Returns TRUE on success.

Example

Text

<?
# text of annotation
$text = "DJ Mike";
# path to font
$font = "../../fonts/lokicola.ttf";
$fontsize = 100;
$fontcolor = "#ffff88";
# output file name 
$file = "banner.gif";

# moves text down
$offset = 14;

# make a black pallete
$pallete = new Imagick;
$pallete->newimage(375,140, "#000000");
# set pallet format to gif
$pallete->setimageformat("gif");

# make a draw object with settings
$draw = new imagickdraw();
$draw->setgravity(imagick::GRAVITY_CENTER); # center text
$draw->setfont("$font"); # set font
$draw->setfontsize($fontsize); # set font size
$draw->setfillcolor("$fontcolor"); # set font color
$pallete->annotateImage ( $draw,0 ,$offset, 0, $text ); # annotate image, offset moves text down

# write file
$pallete->writeimage( "$file");
# redirect browser to image
header("Location:banner.gif");
?>

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