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Transparency and texttoimage .. How ?!

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Selmah Maxim

Tuesday 13 December 2005 7:05:24 am

Hi ...

Any way to get texttoimage with transparent bg ?!

Thanks in advance.

Daniele P.

Tuesday 13 December 2005 7:41:42 am

It's a quite interesting challange.
You should create a new template function similar to texttoimage, using a different image type (gif or png) because default seem to be png, you probably should add a function to make the background transparent in the libraries (see /lib/eztemplate/classes/eztemplateimageoperator.php) and make sure that the php gd extension support writing gif or png images.

Hope this help a little.

Gabriel R.

Tuesday 13 December 2005 8:46:57 am

I had the same problem and fixed it by doing following modifications.

1. lib/ezimage/classes/ezimageinterface.php
Add a function called allocateTransparentColor to the eZImageInterface class:

function allocateTransparentColor ($color) {
	imagecolortransparent( $this->ImageObject, $color );
}

2. lib/eztemplate/classes/eztemplateimageoperator.php

function modify( ...) {
...

if ( $ini->hasVariable( $class, 'AbsoluteWidth' ) )
	$absoluteWidth =& $ini->variable( $class, 'AbsoluteWidth' );
if ( $ini->hasVariable( $class, 'AbsoluteHeight' ) )
	$absoluteHeight =& $ini->variable( $class, 'AbsoluteHeight' );

/* START ADDITION */
$transparentBackground = false;
if ( $ini->hasVariable( $class, 'TransparentBackground' ) )
	$transparentBackground = $ini->variable( $class, 'TransparentBackground' ) == "enabled";
/* END ADDITION */

...

$alternativeText = htmlspecialchars( $inputValue );
if ( is_string( $usecache ) )
	$md5Text = $usecache;
else
	/* START MODIFICATION */
	//$md5Text = md5( $inputValue . $family . $size . $angle . $xadj . $yadj . $wadj . $hadj . $absoluteWidth . $absoluteHeight . implode( ",", $bgcol ) . implode( ",", $textcol ) );
	$md5Text = md5( $transparentBackground. $inputValue . $family . $size . $angle . $xadj . $yadj . $wadj . $hadj . $absoluteWidth . $absoluteHeight . implode( ",", $bgcol ) . implode( ",", $textcol ) );
	/* END MODIFICATION */

...

if ( is_string( $usecache ) or !$usecache or
	!$this->hasImage( $this->CacheDir, 'imagetext', $md5Text, $alternativeText, $this->StoreAs ) )
{
	$layer =& eZImageTextLayer::createForText( $inputValue, $font,
                                     $wadj, $hadj, $angle,
                                     $absoluteWidth, $absoluteHeight );
	if ( !$layer )
	{
		$tpl->error( $operatorName, "Could not open font \"$family\", no image created", $placement );
		return;
	}
	$layer->allocateColor( 'bgcol', $bgcol[0], $bgcol[1], $bgcol[2] );
	$layer->allocateColor( 'textcol', $textcol[0], $textcol[1], $textcol[2] );
	
	/* START ADDITION */
	if ( $transparentBackground )
		$layer->allocateTransparentColor($layer->color( 'bgcol' ));
	/* END ADDITION */

	$layer->setTextColor( 'textcol' );

	if ( $storeImage )
		$this->storeImage( $layer, $this->CacheDir, 'imagetext', $md5Text, $alternativeText, $this->StoreAs );
	$layer->destroy();
	}
else

...

} // end function modify
            

Usage in texttoimage.ini:

[arial]
Family=arial
PointSize=30
XAdjustment=0
YAdjustment=0
WidthAdjustment=8
HeightAdjustment=6
BackgroundColor=#ffffff
TransparentBackground=enabled
TextColor=#000000

Greets, Gabriel

Selmah Maxim

Tuesday 13 December 2005 9:07:39 am

hmm ... thanks guyz .. but I don`t think I will paly with php code... for svn updates !

Ulitsa Tal Arik

Wednesday 03 January 2007 5:29:26 am

great works!

why this updates don't add to 3.9.0?

Daniele Nocentini

Friday 09 February 2007 3:19:36 am

great works!

but how can I use this in extension for not override the original lib function?

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