Question

I’ve tried to write text in an image just for testing purposes because my Zabbix install is not writing text in the graphs. I’ve copied the code bellow from the php.net website (http://php.net/manual/en/function.imagettftext.php)

<?php
// Set the content-type
header('Content-Type: image/png');

// Create the image
$im = imagecreatetruecolor(400, 30);

// Create some colors
$white = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$grey = imagecolorallocate($im, 128, 128, 128);
$black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
imagefilledrectangle($im, 0, 0, 399, 29, $white);

// The text to draw
$text = 'Testing...';
// Replace path by your own font path
$font = '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf'; 

// Add some shadow to the text
imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 11, 21, $grey, $font, $text);

// Add the text
imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 10, 20, $black, $font, $text);

// Using imagepng() results in clearer text compared with imagejpeg()
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>

Does anyone have an idea?

Answer 1

I’ve figure out what was the problem here. Permissions to access the truetype file. PHP could not access the file so it couldn’t write.

I was not seeing the problem because I was not running with E_ALL. Now everything is running smoothly