PHP imagick or GD merge image from an array - php

Question

I was looking in google but I can't find any solution.
I need merge multiple png file via php. Everything works when I declarate image path like this:
<?php
$img1 = new Imagick('face.png');
$img2 = new Imagick('glasses-1.png');
$img1->compositeImage( $img2, imagick::COMPOSITE_DEFAULT, 0, 0 );
$img1->setImageBackgroundColor('transparent');
$img_wynik = $img1->flattenImages();
$img_wynik->setImageFormat('png');
$img_wynik->writeImage( 'avatar.png' );
header('Content-type: image/png');
echo $img_wynik;
?>
But I realy need to use images array, so i made test file and it doesn't work.
I thought I can use simple array like this
$srcImagesPath = array('glasses-1.png', 'mouth-1.png') //for example
and later change my testing code to this
$img2 = new Imagick ($srcImagesPath)
but it's always give me merged face.png and last image from array.
Any idea how to build it?

Answer 1

$srcImagesPath is an array, so you'll need to specify an element of it instead of passing the array itself. I guess you want:
$img2 = new Imagick ($srcImagesPath[0])
or
$img2 = new Imagick ($srcImagesPath[1])

Answer 2

if you have the GD library installed (assuming you have):
$image1 = imagefrompng('glasses-1.png');
$image2 = imagefrompng('mouth-1.png');
Once this is done you can create a frame in a new image using:
imagecopymerge()
I'll let you sort the destination, sources and coordinates... call it a challenge ;)
From there all you have to do is output the composited image to a file using imagepng:
imagepng($compositedImage, $path_to_filesystem_destination);
Using the command directly will output the image to the browser, the second parameter saves the image to a file.