PHP: imagettfbbox function - Give the bounding box of a text using TrueType fonts

Description

array imagettfbbox ( float $size , float $angle , string $fontfile , string $text )

This function calculates and returns the bounding box in pixels for a TrueType text.

Parameters

size: The font size. Depending on your version of GD, this should be specified as the pixel size (GD1) or point size (GD2).
angle: Angle in degrees in which text will be measured.
fontfile: The name of the TrueType font file (can be a URL). Depending on which version of the GD library that PHP is using, it may attempt to search for files that do not begin with a leading '/' by appending '.ttf' to the filename and searching along a library-defined font path.
text: The string to be measured.

Return Values

imagettfbbox() returns an array with 8 elements representing four points making the bounding box of the text:

0	lower left corner, X position
1	lower left corner, Y position
2	lower right corner, X position
3	lower right corner, Y position
4	upper right corner, X position
5	upper right corner, Y position
6	upper left corner, X position
7	upper left corner, Y position

The points are relative to the text regardless of the angle , so "upper left" means in the top left-hand corner seeing the text horizontally.

Examples

Example #1 imagettfbbox() example


<?php
// Create a 300x150 image
$im = imagecreatetruecolor(300, 150);
$black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
$white = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);

// Set the background to be white
imagefilledrectangle($im, 0, 0, 299, 299, $white);

// Path to our font file
$font = './arial.ttf';

// First we create our bounding box for the first text
$bbox = imagettfbbox(10, 45, $font, 'Powered by PHP ' . phpversion());

// This is our cordinates for X and Y
$x = $bbox[0] + (imagesx($im) / 2) - ($bbox[4] / 2) - 25;
$y = $bbox[1] + (imagesy($im) / 2) - ($bbox[5] / 2) - 5;

// Write it
imagettftext($im, 10, 45, $x, $y, $black, $font, 'Powered by PHP ' . phpversion());

// Create the next bounding box for the second text
$bbox = imagettfbbox(10, 45, $font, 'and Zend Engine ' . zend_version());

// Set the cordinates so its next to the first text
$x = $bbox[0] + (imagesx($im) / 2) - ($bbox[4] / 2) + 10;
$y = $bbox[1] + (imagesy($im) / 2) - ($bbox[5] / 2) - 5;

// Write it
imagettftext($im, 10, 45, $x, $y, $black, $font, 'and Zend Engine ' . zend_version());

// Output to browser
header('Content-type: image/png');

imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>

imagettfbbox

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