PHP: Write text to the image using fonts using FreeType 2

Description

array imagefttext ( resource $image , float $size , float $angle , int $x , int $y , int $color , string $font_file , string $text [, array $extrainfo ] )

Parameters

image: An image resource, returned by one of the image creation functions, such as imagecreatetruecolor().
size: The font size to use in points
angle: The angle in degrees, with 0 degrees being left-to-right reading text. Higher values represent a counter-clockwise rotation. For example, a value of 90 would result in bottom-to-top reading text.
x: The coordinates given by x and y will define the basepoint of the first character (roughly the lower-left corner of the character). This is different from the imagestring(), where x and y define the upper-left corner of the first character. For example, "top left" is 0, 0.
y: The y-ordinate. This sets the position of the fonts baseline, not the very bottom of the character.
color: The index of the desired color for the text, see imagecolorexact()
font_file: The full path to the font being used.
text: Text to be inserted into image.
extrainfo

Return Values

This function returns an array defining the four points of the box, starting in the lower left and moving counter-clockwise:

0 lower left x-coordinate

1 lower left y-coordinate

2 lower right x-coordinate

3 lower right y-coordinate

4 upper right x-coordinate

5 upper right y-coordinate

6 upper left x-coordinate

7 upper left y-coordinate

Notes

Note: This function requires GD 2.0.1 or later (2.0.28 or later is recommended).

Note: This function is only available if PHP is compiled with freetype support (--with-freetype-dir=DIR)

ChangeLog

Version Description

4.3.5 extrainfo was made optional.