<?php
  public function executeGenerateText (sfWebRequest $request) {
    $font = '/images/ROTISSAS.TTF';
    $bbox = imageftbbox(20, 0, $font, $this->getRequestParameter('text') );
    
    $width = $bbox[2] - $bbox[0] + 10;
    $height = $bbox[1] - $bbox[7] + 10;
    
    $im = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);
    $black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
    $white = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
    
    // Set the background to be white
    // Path to our font file
    // First we create our bounding box
    
    
    imagefilledrectangle($im, 0, 0, $width, $height, $black);

    // This is our cordinates for X and Y
    $x = $bbox[0] + (imagesx($im) / 2) - ($bbox[4] / 2);
    //$y = $bbox[1] + (imagesy($im) / 2) - ($bbox[5] / 2) + 3 ;
    $y = 28;
    
    imagefttext($im, 20, 0, 0, $y, $white, $font, $this->getRequestParameter('text'));
    
    // Output to browser
    header('Content-type: image/png');
    
    imagepng($im);
    imagedestroy($im);

    return sfView::NONE;
  }//executeGenerateText
?>


# USAGE

<img src="<? echo url_for('modulename/generateText?text=My text'); ?>" alt="" title="" />

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Symfony - Action for text image generation (using GD)

<?php
  public function executeGenerateText (sfWebRequest $request) {
    $font = '/images/ROTISSAS.TTF';
    $bbox = imageftbbox(20, 0, $font, $this->getRequestParameter('text') );
    
    $width = $bbox[2] - $bbox[0] + 10;
    $height = $bbox[1] - $bbox[7] + 10;
    
    $im = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);
    $black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
    $white = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
    
    // Set the background to be white
    // Path to our font file
    // First we create our bounding box
    
    
    imagefilledrectangle($im, 0, 0, $width, $height, $black);

    // This is our cordinates for X and Y
    $x = $bbox[0] + (imagesx($im) / 2) - ($bbox[4] / 2);
    //$y = $bbox[1] + (imagesy($im) / 2) - ($bbox[5] / 2) + 3 ;
    $y = 28;
    
    imagefttext($im, 20, 0, 0, $y, $white, $font, $this->getRequestParameter('text'));
    
    // Output to browser
    header('Content-type: image/png');
    
    imagepng($im);
    imagedestroy($im);

    return sfView::NONE;
  }//executeGenerateText
?>


# USAGE

<img src="<? echo url_for('modulename/generateText?text=My text'); ?>" alt="" title="" />

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• gd, 
• image generation, 
• symfony