This article will tell you how to write text on an existing PNG image using PHP using PHP's image manipulation functions. The image functions require the GD library to be installed. This article is fairly basic, however some more detail on the basic functions used is included in the article, "write text on a dynamically generated image in PHP"
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This tutorial will show you how to rotate an image in your PHP scripts. You'll need to have the GD library installed to be able to use some of the functions we use in this guide, though this is included with most PHP installations so there's a chance you'll have it.
Image rotation in PHP is handled by a function called imagerotate(), which takes three parameters (and optionally a fourth, which deals with transparency and is beyond the scope of this guide). The first is the resource identifier which you obtain when you load the original image within your script, the second is the angle which you want to rotate the image and the third parameter is used when the image isn't going to be rectangular, and specifies the colour with which to fill the uncovered areas of the rotated image to make it into a rectangle (since all image formats require rectangular images).
This tutorial will tell you how to write text to a blank dynamically generated PNG image in PHP. This is fairly simple, so it will just be the first step in a series of tutorials dealing with images in PHP. The image functions require the GD library to be installed.
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