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Intro
I have written a tutorial on, how to create Images with PHP and how to Watermark them.
So I tought to make another one and show you how to add, custom text using custom fonts.

I will use the signature image of Conspiracy, because I like it a lot.

Demo Wrote:

Functions
In this tutorial I will use one new function
imagettftext();
array imagettftext ( resource $image , float $size , float $angle , int $x , int $y , int $color , string $fontfile , string $text )

Start
Let us start out by defining our wished text and font.

PHP Code:
$font = "BRUCM.ttf"; // full path to your font file
$text = "SupportForums.net"; 

The variable $font hodls the full path to the font file, NOTE: the format of the file must be .ttf.

Now let us load the image, for that we use the function imagecreatefromjpg();

PHP Code:
$image = imagecreatefromjpg("conspiracy_sig.jpg"); 

And let us define the color for our text. imagecolorallocate();
I will use the red.

PHP Code:
$color = imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 0, 0); 

Now we have all that we need, so let's generate the new image.
First we add our text to the image file, imagettftext();.

PHP Code:
imagettftext($image, 20, 0, 165, 185, $color, $font, $text);

// define content-type header
header("Content-type: image/png");
// output image as a png image
imagepng($image);

// and free the memory 
imagedestroy($image); 

Source (Click to View)

Gaijin