Question

Is it possible to dynamically place text on an image in php? And then send it to an rss feed?

Answer 1

Yes, can use either the GD functions or the ImageMagick functions, depending on which is installed on your server and which you prefer.

Using GD it would go something like this:

<?php $img = imagecreatefromjpeg('my.jpg'); $textColor = imagecolorallocate($img, 0, 0, 0); // black text  imagefttext($img, 13, 0, 105, 55, $textColor, './arial.ttf', 'Hello World');  // Output image to the browser header('Content-Type: image/jpeg'); imagejpeg($img);  // Or save to file imagejpeg($img, 'my-text.jpg');  imagedestroy($img); ?> 

Edit:

To put the image into your RSS feed you would save it to a file and put the URL into your feed.