Mahmoud's code for Drawing Rotated Text

You will need a font for this operation. You can find the font here .
Then create a font directory and put this font in it. You will need this font for the "Draw Text on an Image" Project next week.
Then change "Tedd's World" to something else.

SLAVE CODE FOLLOWS


<?php // PHP slave script drawing rotated text



// === create background work area



// create a blank image that is 160 by 160 pixels in size

$image = imagecreatetruecolor(160, 160);



// set a color RGB (238, 238, 238), which is GRAY

$gray = imagecolorallocate($image, 238, 238, 238);



//  fill the entire image

imagefilledrectangle($image, 0, 0, 160, 160, $gray);



// set the foreground RGB color for the text

// ( 0, 51, 102) is a DARK BLUE

$color = imagecolorallocate($image, 0, 51, 102);



$font = 'fonts/arial.ttf';

$str = "Hello World...";



// combine the background image with a rotated text using the following specs

// (image, font-size, angle-rotation, x-position, y-position, text-color, font-name, text)

imagettftext($image, 20, 45, 15, 150, $color, $font, $str);



// tell the server that a GIF image  follows

header("Content-Type: image/gif");



// display the image

imagegif($image);



// destroy the image (i.e., releases memory)

imagedestroy($image);



?>