How to center a text on an image using GD

This is a snippet which centers a text on an image using the GD Library.

PHP Form Image Upload

This tutorial shows you how to upload an image on your server using PHP and html forms. You will also learn how to verify if the uploaded file is an image (checking the extension), if it doesn't overtakes a size limit and how to change the uploaded file name.

Watermarking on the fly with PHP

PHP, coupled with Apache rewriting, lets watermark "on the fly" and transparently, without modifying the original image.

Creating a simple photo gallery 1.0

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a simple photo gallery. The script creates thumbnail images if needed and displays all images in the given directory.

Image Watermark

This tutorial shows you how you can add a watermark image over images that are uploaded though a form.

Get the width and height of an image using a function in PHP

This is a very useful function in PHP, I found it on php.net PHP provides function to get the width and height of an image. The getimagesize() function will determine the size of image file including flash file(swf).

PHP Script Image of the day

In this script shows you how to display image of the day. You can adapt this script to display quote of the day, knowledge of the day or something else you want. You don't have to change image everyday just change images once a week.

Force download for PDF, JPG, GIF directly from the web browser

When a user clicks on a link to a JPG file, PDF file and other kind of files from a website, the web browser normally open the file inside it. This sometimes is annoying, for example, when the browser opens a PDF file this make the computer works slowly while the PDF loads. Another reason this is annoying is that maybe you want to store the files on your computer and use or read later. Some webmasters try to avoid this problem and force download using .zip files, but this is not an elegant so

Cropping with GD

Thumbnails are something we use all the time. The problem is that often we just resize them down. Depending on the size of the image, this can make the thumbnail almost useless. To get around this, sometimes cropping is the answer. I actually thing a cropped thumbnail can be more effective because it doesn't show the entire image, making you more interested in seeing the full image. As it turns out, GD is very capable of cropping images as well as resizing them. I've taken both methods to creat

Introduction to the GD library - How to create a simple image and add text

In this tutorial you will learn how to create images on the fly using PHP's GD library. This will be a basic tutorial showing you how to create an image, and display some text on it. Because we are creating an image, we need to tell the browser to treat the PHP file as an image, and not HTML, so we need to set a content type.

Create Thumbnail with PHP

One example could be if you let your visitors upload an image of themself when they register. For different reasons it could be important to make sure the images have a specific size, so they don't mess upp hte design of your layout. Another example could be if you have a photo gallery for your self, then it's nice to have the same size for images. Together with standard PHP installations you get something that is called GD. This package is made for creating and modifying images directly from P

Dynamic Image Tutorial Part 1 - Creating a dynamic image based on user input!

I have been working on a dynamic image with some help from forum members (Glenn for the idea, bunit for the colors idea, and stainnn for the php drop menu, which I later dropped as I decided against using it) I have bought it to a state to which I am happy with, it doesnt do anything special or amazing, it just prints the info on the image selected.

PHP Thumbnail Generation Script

This tutorial focuses on a thumbnail generation script I wrote for the Accidental President site. Rather than generating a smaller representation of the image, it cuts out a section of the photograph to create an obscure snapshot of the photo itself. The thumbnail's size is variable also, so the script be used across different sites to create different sized thumbnails where needed. First off, we get 3 variables passed when the script is called (see last section). $image is the full URL of th

External Thumbnail Creator - Create a thumbnail of any image on the internet!

Thumbnails are found on alot of website accross the web. They are used to save bandwidth and increase page load time. Add images that were once too big for your website into your website with ease. No need to create two copies of the same image, just let PHP do it for you. Not only is it automated, it will even recreate a thumb with a different file size from an extrenal image which will reduce alot of used bandwidth, not just make the height and width different!

PHP Image Thumbnailer - Make a script that resizes an image to a thumbnail size

make a script that resizes an image to a thumbnail size and keeps proportions adds a simple blue border learn a bit about the gd library. you will need: a server that has up tp date php and an up to date version of the gd library. you can check this by running the following code in a .php document. jpg, png and gif support should all evaluate to true. if not, complain to your host! if it does nothing but display its self glitchely to the browser, your host doesnt support php and you

Avatar DB Part 2 - Avatar DB admin management

On the first part of the tutorial, we've discussed how to add and display avatars. What if you want to edit or delete an avatar record? The avatar admin page is the answer. On this part I would teach you how to make an avatar admin page where you could edit, add, delete avatars.

Avatar DB Part 1 - Create your database for your avatars

In this tutorial, we'll be discussing how to make an avatar database for your site. On this part, we'll discuss how to make a form that will be in charge of adding new avatars and a page that would display the avatars on the database.

Image Thumbnailer Generator

What we aim to make is a script that utilizes the inbuilt GDlibrary in php, to copy an image, resize it, put a blue border around it to indicate its a thumbnail, and output it to the browser. All this should happen without the need of a thumbnails folder in your webspace, the resizing will happen 'on the fly' from the original image and will immediately be sent to the browser. This will save you webspace, bandwith (as users won’t want to view all your images in full) and eliminate clutter on

Create an avatar system

This tutorial will show you how to make a avatar system for your website, you will need to have your own login system to create this avatar system Please note that this is an updated version from the other tutorial we have and with this one you can set the max size of the avatar you want Ok first thing you need to do is make sure this is done 1) $username is set to the person you are currently loggedin, eg $username = $_COOKIE['username']; 2) Make sure that you have a folder in the same

Making An Avatar System

this tutorial will show you how to make a avatar system for your website, you will need to have your own login system to create this avatar system Ok first thing you need to do is make sure this is done 1) $username is set to the person you are currently loggedin, eg $username = $_COOKIE['username']; 2) Make sure that you have a folder in the same directory as the directory where the script is going to be executed, if your using includes just make the folder in /public_html/ or / if you don