Add text over an image when uploading it in PHP - php

Question

I have a pictures website like Quickmeme.com and I would like to add text over images.
I currently let the user upload the picture manually, writing the comments with Paint program in Windows which is a bad idea and I need help ...
here is the code I use for Uploading an image, I am thinking of adding a text field below the upload field so what ever the user writes in that box will be printed on the image as an imagetext ... So how can I do that with php?
<?php if(isset($_POST["upload"])){
$tmp_name = $_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"];
$file_name = basename($_FILES["file"]["name"]);
$random = rand(1, 9999999999);
$directory = "Uploads/" . $random . $file_name;
$time = strftime("%H:%M:%S", time());
$date = strftime("%Y-%m-%d", time());
if(move_uploaded_file($tmp_name, $directory)){
if(mysql_query("")){
$query = mysql_query(""); $fetch = mysql_fetch_array($query);
if(mysql_query("")){
header("Location: index.php");
exit;
}
}
}
} ?>
Here is my website http://www.picturepunches.net

Answer 1

You can try
if (isset($_POST["upload"])) {
$tmp_name = $_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"];
$file_name = basename($_FILES["file"]["name"]);
$random = rand(1, 9999999999);
$directory = "Uploads/" . $random . $file_name;
$time = strftime("%H:%M:%S", time());
$date = strftime("%Y-%m-%d", time());
switch (strtolower(pathinfo($file_name, PATHINFO_EXTENSION))) {
case "jpg" :
$im = imagecreatefromjpeg($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"]);
break;
case "gif" :
$im = imagecreatefromgif($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"]);
break;
case "png" :
$im = imagecreatefrompng($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"]);
break;
default :
trigger_error("Error Bad Extention");
exit();
break;
}
$font = 'verdana.ttf';
$grey = imagecolorallocate($im, 128, 128, 128);
$red = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 0, 0);
// Add some shadow to the text
imagettftext($im, 10, 0, 11, 20, $grey, $font, $date);
imagettftext($im, 10, 0, 10, 35, $grey, $font, $time);
imagettftext($im, 10, 0, 10, 50, $red, $font, $random);
// imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
if (move_uploaded_file($tmp_name, $directory)) {
if (mysql_query("")) {
$query = mysql_query("");
$fetch = mysql_fetch_array($query);
if (mysql_query("")) {
header("Location: index.php");
exit();
}
}
}
}
Output
Uploaded Final

Answer 2

First, check if you have the GD extension installed, next,
Use the GD functions
//Loading the file
$rImg = ImageCreateFromJPEG("MyPicture.jpg");
//Font Color (black in this case)
$color = imagecolorallocate($rImg, 0, 0, 0);
//x-coordinate of the upper left corner.
$xPos = 100;
//y-coordinate of the upper left corner.
$yPos = 30;
//Writting the picture
imagestring($rImg,5,$xPos,$yPos,"My text in the picture",$color);
//The new file with the text
header('Content-type: image/jpeg');
imagejpeg($rImg, NULL, 100);
you can use this tutorial
http://blog.doh.ms/2008/02/12/adding-text-to-images-in-real-time-with-php/