With some research, I have created the following piece of code to generate a simple image with a text string right on the center showing the resolution of this image. The challenge is, when you change X & Y dimensions to larger or smaller values, the font size remains the same.
My question is, what would be a good way to "grow" or "shrink" the font size as the user chooses between image sizes?
One idea I had would be to calculate predetermined areas, add them to an array of key value pairs where the value is the hard-coded font size for a given range of areas.
Perhaps you have a simpler idea?
PS: The font I am using can be downloaded from Google fonts here:
The output looks like this:
And the code:
<?php
// We Declare our canvas width & height dimensions
$myCanvasWidth = 256;
$myCanvasHeight = 256;
// We Create an empty and dark canvas from these dimensions above
$myCanvas = imagecreate($myCanvasWidth, $myCanvasHeight) or die("Can't create image!");
// We Allocate a color to be used as the canvas background
$colorIndigo = imagecolorallocate($myCanvas, 0x3F, 0x51, 0xB5);
// We Apply color as canvas background
imagefill($myCanvas, 0, 0, $colorIndigo);
// We Allocate a color to be used with the canvas text
$colorWhite = imagecolorallocate($myCanvas, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF);
// We Declare our TTF font path in Windows 10...
$myFont = 'J:\Montserrat-SemiBold.ttf';
// We set the font size
$myFontSize = 16;
// We set the text angle
$myTextAngle = 0;
// We Declare the text string to be drawn on canvas...
$myText = $myCanvasWidth . ' x ' . $myCanvasHeight;
// We Calculate and return the bounding box in pixels for the text string to be drawn on canvas...
$myTextBoundingBox = imageftbbox($myFontSize, $myTextAngle, $myFont, $myText);
// Get the text upper, lower, left and right corner bounds of our text bounding box...
$lower_left_x = $myTextBoundingBox[0];
$lower_left_y = $myTextBoundingBox[1];
$lower_right_x = $myTextBoundingBox[2];
$lower_right_y = $myTextBoundingBox[3];
$upper_right_x = $myTextBoundingBox[4];
$upper_right_y = $myTextBoundingBox[5];
$upper_left_x = $myTextBoundingBox[6];
$upper_left_y = $myTextBoundingBox[7];
// Get Text Width and Height
$myTextWidth = $lower_right_x - $lower_left_x; //or $upper_right_x - $upper_left_x
$myTextHeight = $lower_right_y - $upper_right_y; //or $lower_left_y - $upper_left_y
//Get the starting position for centering
$start_x_offset = ($myCanvasWidth - $myTextWidth) / 2;
$start_y_offset = (($myCanvasHeight - $myTextHeight) + $myFontSize * 2) / 2;
// Write text to the image using TrueType fonts
imagettftext($myCanvas, $myFontSize, $myTextAngle, $start_x_offset, $start_y_offset, $colorWhite, $myFont, $myText);
// Draw a horizontal dashed line for reference only
imagedashedline($myCanvas, 0, $myCanvasHeight/2, $myCanvasWidth, $myCanvasHeight/2, $colorWhite);
// Draw a vertical dashed line for reference only
imagedashedline($myCanvas, $myCanvasWidth/2, 0, $myCanvasWidth/2, $myCanvasHeight, $colorWhite);
// We se the correct http header for png images...
header('Content-Type: image/png');
// We Output a PNG image to either the browser or a file
imagepng($myCanvas);
// Free any memory associated with myCanvas; image.
imagedestroy($myCanvas);
?>




