imagefontwidth
For alignment i used this method:
if($align == "center" || $align == "right")
{
$verticaltxtspace = $backwidth - (2 * $posx);
$spacepositions = imagettfbbox($size, $angle, "fonts/verdanaz.ttf", " ");
$spacepx = $spacepositions[4] - $spacepositions[0];
// Split text in lines
$lines = split("[\r][\n]", $text);
for($count = 0; $count < count($lines); $count++)
{
$textpositions = imagettfbbox($size, $angle, "fonts/verdanaz.ttf", $lines[$count]);
$textpx = $textpositions[2] - $textpositions[0];
if($align == "right")
{
$spaces = ($verticaltxtspace - $textpx) / $spacepx;
}
else if($align == "center")
{
$spaces = (($verticaltxtspace - $textpx)/2) / $spacepx;
}
// Add spaces
$line = $lines[$count];
for($i = 0; $i < $spaces; $i++)
{
$line = " " . $line;
}
$lines[$count] = $line;
}
// Create new text of lines
$text = "";
for($count = 0; $count < count($lines); $count++)
{
$text .= $lines[$count] . "\r\n";
}
}
// Draw the shadow text on de shadow
imagettftext($background, $size, $angle, $posx, $posy, $textcolor, "fonts/verdanaz.ttf", $text);
imageftbbox
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.7, PHP 5)
imageftbbox — Give the bounding box of a text using fonts via freetype2
Description
array imageftbbox
( float
$size
, float $angle
, string $fontfile
, string $text
[, array $extrainfo
] )This function calculates and returns the bounding box in pixels for a FreeType text.
Parameters
-
size -
The font size. Depending on your version of GD, this should be specified as the pixel size (GD1) or point size (GD2).
-
angle -
Angle in degrees in which
textwill be measured. -
fontfile -
The name of the TrueType font file (can be a URL). Depending on which version of the GD library that PHP is using, it may attempt to search for files that do not begin with a leading '/' by appending '.ttf' to the filename and searching along a library-defined font path.
-
text -
The string to be measured.
-
extrainfo -
Possible array indexes for extrainfoKey Type Meaning linespacing float Defines drawing linespacing
Return Values
imageftbbox() returns an array with 8 elements representing four points making the bounding box of the text:
| 0 | lower left corner, X position |
| 1 | lower left corner, Y position |
| 2 | lower right corner, X position |
| 3 | lower right corner, Y position |
| 4 | upper right corner, X position |
| 5 | upper right corner, Y position |
| 6 | upper left corner, X position |
| 7 | upper left corner, Y position |
The points are relative to the text regardless of the
angle, so "upper left" means in the top left-hand
corner seeing the text horizontally.
Examples
Example #1 imageftbbox() example
<?php
// Create a 300x150 image
$im = imagecreatetruecolor(300, 150);
$black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
$white = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
// Set the background to be white
imagefilledrectangle($im, 0, 0, 299, 299, $white);
// Path to our font file
$font = './arial.ttf';
// First we create our bounding box
$bbox = imageftbbox(10, 0, $font, 'The PHP Documentation Group');
// This is our cordinates for X and Y
$x = $bbox[0] + (imagesx($im) / 2) - ($bbox[4] / 2) - 5;
$y = $bbox[1] + (imagesy($im) / 2) - ($bbox[5] / 2) - 5;
imagefttext($im, 10, 0, $x, $y, $black, $font, 'The PHP Documentation Group');
// Output to browser
header('Content-Type: image/png');
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>
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.
|
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User Contributed Notes
imageftbbox - [9 notes]
Johan ¶
5 years ago
theo v e -2 ¶
7 years ago
ah... the problem between imageftbbox() and imagefttext() lies in the mirroring of the y-axes.
Below you see, for a font-size 16 the boudingboxes of "b", "p" and "bp":
< b: w=9 h=15
b(0,-1)
b(9,-1)
b(9,-16)
b(0,-16)
< p: w=9 h=16
p(0,4)
p(9,4)
p(9,-12)
p(0,-12)
< bp: w=20 h=20
bp(0,4)
bp(20,4)
bp(20,-16)
bp(0,-16)
If drawing "bp" using imagefttext() at y=0, the the top of "bp" indeed is at y=-16, and the bottom of "bp" at y=4. (Plus or minus a pixel here and there, because at y=0 there actually is a vissible pixel.)
fernando ¶
7 years ago
imagettfbbox() returns an array with 8 elements representing four points making the bounding box of the text:
0 lower left corner, X position
1 lower left corner, Y position
2 lower right corner, X position
3 lower right corner, Y position
4 upper right corner, X position
5 upper right corner, Y position
6 upper left corner, X position
7 upper left corner, Y position
The points are relative to the text regardless of the angle, so "upper left" means in the top left-hand corner seeing the text horizontally.
groomed at users dot sf dot net ¶
9 years ago
ImageFTBBox returns a bounding box, not metrics, as some (most?) of the notes above seem to assume. The 8 values it returns specify the 4 corners of this bounding box. So to properly determine the width and height of a string you need to do:
$bbox = ImageFTBBox(...);
$width = abs($bbox[0]) + abs($bbox[2]); // distance from left to right
$height = abs($bbox[1]) + abs($bbox[5]); // distance from top to bottom
sectionthirty1 at yahoo dot com ¶
9 years ago
Here is a handy example I used to center "dynamic text" onto an image.
Ex. Say you want to center a clients IP Address onto a picture.
$ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$details = imageftbbox($fontsize, 0, $font, $ip, array("linespacing" => 1));
$xcoord = ($imgwidth - $details[4]) / 2; // this will return the x coordinate centered to your specific image. Make sure you set $imgwidth to the width of the image you are using.
imagettftext($image, $fontsize, 0, $xcoord, $ycoord, $fontcolor, $font, $ip);
Brian at PrintsMadeEasy dot com ¶
10 years ago
I noticed that PHP's True Type functions do not allow you to create text blocks with multiple lines that automatically adjust for alignment. I wrote a function that will allow you to generate images with multiple lines, control the alignment, and handle rotation. I hope it helps someone.
There was too much code to paste on this message post so you can grab it off of my webserver. I also created an example page so that you can see the code in action.
Example Page:
http://www.PrintsMadeEasy.com/code_samples/php/text_generation.php
Download the Text file:
http://www.PrintsMadeEasy.com /code_samples/php/text_generation.txt
ta at NOSPAM dot magicsquare dot info ¶
10 years ago
i've found a work around for this situation
it seems that height is directly proportional to line spacing so you just have to apply the same factor to image height
for example :
$spacing = 0.7;
$params = array("linespacing" => $spacing);
$box = imageftbbox ($size, 0, $font, $text, $params);
$tw=$box[4]-$box[0]; //image width
$th=($box[1]-$box[5])*$spacing; //image height
phpimageftbbox at juggernaut dot com dot au ¶
11 years ago
This function can be used to generate right-aligned text. Just work out how wide the text image is and position it accordingly. Example:
$i_width = 200;
$i_height = 40;
$string = "Hello World!";
$pointsize = 10;
$fontfile = "/usr/local/lib/ttf/Helve.ttf";
$im = imagecreate($i_width, $i_height);
$black = imagecolorallocate ($im, 0, 0, 0);
$white = imagecolorallocate ($im, 255, 255, 255);
$string_size = ImageFtBbox($pointsize, 0, $fontfile, $string, array("linespacing" => 1));
$s_width = $string_size[4];
$s_height = $string_size[5];
ImageFtText($im, $pointsize, 0, $i_width - $s_width - 1, 0 - $s_height, $white, $fontfile, $string, array("linespacing" => 1));
Header ("Content-type: image/png");
ImagePNG ($im);
ImageDestroy ($im);
theo v e ¶
7 years ago
IF we accept the idea that a bouding box is returned then:
$bbox= imageftbbox ( $size, $angle, $font, $txt);
$width = abs($bbox[4] - $bbox[0]);
$height = abs($bbox[1] - $bbox[5]);
may be a better kind of math. But it depends... You may want to subtract yet another '1' from both the width and the height.
But try drawing a "p" and next try a "d". Their bounding boxes differ 1 px in height. Of course the respective boxes, by imagefttext(), are placed at a different y coordinate. I noticed that if a "p" or a "b" is drawn at (0, 30) the first character of the string actually starts on, fills, the third horizontal pixel. Also: if your image is only 30 pixels in heigth, drawing text at (0, 30) means that the bottoms parts of "p", "q", "y" and alike are somewhere else...