Question

Hello everyone I am trying to write a string on image during runtime and for this purpose I am using imagestring from GD, but am not getting the required output instead its giving met his error:

imagegif(): Unable to open 'temp/textImage.gif' for writing: No such file or directory in … on line 157 Warning:

However this same code was working fine with imagefttext() function, but as my hosting provider heroku does not support freetype library so that’s why ive to switch.

        $message = “Hello World”;
        //Image Processing:
        $imageUrl = "image.gif";
        $imageId = imagecreatefromgif($imageUrl);

        $angle = 0;
        $xCord = 4;
        $yCord = 40;
        $imageColor = imagecolorallocate($imageId, 0, 0, 0);
        $fontUrl = "GOTHIC.TTF";
        $imageText = "HELOOOO";
        $imageTextLnght = strlen($imageText);
        $fontSize = (500 / $imageTextLnght) + 5;
        $imageFont = 1;

//imagefttext($imageId, $fontSize, $angle, $xCord, $yCord, $imageColor, $fontUrl, $imageText);
        imagestring($imageId, 5, $xCord, $yCord, $imageText, $imageColor);
        //header('Content-Type: image/gif');

        //Saving Image With Text:
        $textImage = 'temp/textImage.gif';
        imagegif($imageId, $textImage);
        imagedestroy($imageId);

Kindly help me with this:
Thankyou

Answer 1

Make sure that temp exists, or create it with mkdir.

Usually the error Unable to open .. No such file or directory when trying to create a file means that the directory doesn’t exist.