text to picture with mysql information - php

Question

im building a website indianskincare.co.in which is coming out to what i want. the problem is i want to turn all text for each product into pictures as my client wants the text not to be so easily copied. i see how this is done using PHP by calling the PHP in the image source and the relevant code in the php.
it works on normal text wonderfully but when i include mysql row or any complex code it shows a broken image.
this works displays time and text
Header( "Content-type: image/png");
$image = imagecreate(320,130);
$date = date ("F dS Y h:i a");
$ip = "ip";
$fullip = "Your IP address is $ip.";
$black = ImageColorAllocate($image,0,0,0);
$red = ImageColorAllocate($image,204,0,0);
$white = ImageColorAllocate($image,255,255,255);
ImageFilledRectangle($image,0,0,320,130,$white);
ImageString($image, 14, 0, 0, "$fullip", $red);
ImageString($image, 12, 0, 24, "Time is $date", $black);
ImagePNG($image);
ImageDestroy($image);
I tried to add my mysql code between one of the variables (i didn't think it would matter between which) which works perfectly otherwise on another page but can't seem to change the text into picture.
mysql code
if(isset($_GET['id']))
{
$id=$_GET['id'];
$qry=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Product WHERE id='$id'", $con);
if(!$qry)
{
die("Query Failed: ". mysql_error());
}
/* Fetching data from the field "title" */
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($qry))
{
echo "<div style='overflow-x:hidden;width:20%;margin:0.5em;text-align:center;float:left;'>";
echo "<h3>".$row['name']."</h3>";
echo "<img style='width:100%;margin:0;' src='".$row['image']."' /><br>";
echo "<h1><img style='height:4%;' src='images/rs.png' />".$row['price']."</h1><br><a href='product.php?cat=".$row['short']."'>Back</a><br>";
echo "</div><div style='width:50%;float:left;'>";
echo "<h5 style='font-weight:normal;'>".$row['description']."</h5><br>";
so my question is how to modify the text from mysql array into image.
ps: i know mysql is being deprecated not preferred but ive already done the website using this and i will not be able to modify it to use the other methods

Answer 1

a time ago I use this class - and it works perfectly:
http://image.intervention.io/
Intervention Image requires the following components to work correctly.
PHP >= 5.3
Fileinfo Extension
And one of the following image libraries.
GD Library (>=2.0) … or …
Imagick PHP extension (>=6.5.7)
A good start is to install the composer:
https://packagist.org/
With the composer you can easily install PHP Packages / Modules for almost all issue.
Example from the page (how to convert text to an image)
// create Image from file
$img = Image::make('public/foo.jpg');
// write text
$img->text('The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.');
// write text at position
$img->text('The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.', 120, 100);
// use callback to define details
$img->text('foo', 0, 0, function($font) {
$font->file('foo/bar.ttf');
$font->size(24);
$font->color('#fdf6e3');
$font->align('center');
$font->valign('top');
$font->angle(45);
});
// draw transparent text
$img->text('foo', 0, 0, function($font) {
$font->color(array(255, 255, 255, 0.5))
});
So an example for your code could be (if intervention image class is working):
$result = array();
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($qry))
{
$result[] = array(
'name' => convertToImage($row['name'], $row['id'].'_name'),
'price' => convertToImage($row['price'], $row['id'].'_price')
)
}
function convertToImage($text, $name) {
$img = Image::make('images/transparent.png');
$img->text($text);
$img->save('images/'.$name.'.png');
return '<img src="images/'.$name.'.png">';
}
?>