Question

Is it possible to create images with PHP (as opposed to simply linking to them via HTML) and if so, where should I go first to learn about such a thing?

Answer 1

I prefer the GD library – check out the Examples, and this example:

<?php header ('Content-type: image/png'); $im = @imagecreatetruecolor(120, 20)       or die('Cannot Initialize new GD image stream'); $text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 233, 14, 91); imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5,  'A Simple Text String', $text_color); imagepng($im); imagedestroy($im); ?> 

Outputs:

_{(source: php.net)}

See imagecreatetruecolor.