Display date within an image?

Discussion in 'Programming' started by Bulldog-Designs, Aug 13, 2009.

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    I need an image to automatically update to the current date. I thought maybe using the PHP date function I may be able to update a date in an image.
    is this possible?
     
    Bulldog-Designs, Aug 13, 2009 IP
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<?php 
   header("Content-type: image/jpeg"); 
  //default background image
  $im = @imagecreatefromjpeg("default.jpg")  
  or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream"); 

  // white background and red text 
  $bg = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255); 
  $textcolor = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 0, 0); 
   
  // write the date at the top left 
  imagestring($im, 5, 0, 0, date('l jS \of F Y h:i:s A'), $textcolor); 
   
  // output the image to the browser
   imagejpeg($im); 
  ImageDestroy ($im); 
?>
    PHP:
    Course you could also save the image into a local cache of sort.
     
    kblessinggr, Aug 13, 2009 IP