So you want to watermark your images, how do you do this? In this technique we’ll show you how we serve our images with a watermark using PHP. We’ll be building on the Serve Resized Images with PHP tutorial we published previously, which explains basic re-size manipulation of your images.
Stepping through the code, we first get our previously created watermark (more…)
There are many reasons we use PHP to serve images on sites including: resizing, watermarking, skewing, server-caching, etc. This will cover the basics of serving and resizing an image with PHP. This technique will work with JPG, JPEG, GIF & PNG image types. We’ll cover more advanced image manipulation techniques in later posts.
The first line of code calls the functions.phtml (more…)
Lets define some PHP functions we’ll be calling on for our PHP image tutorial series. We define all these functions in a file named functions.phtml and call it in our PHP code through a PHP include_once(), this way we don’t bother with the functions in our PHP image code.
This first function allows us to determine if the requested image file is an image is_image() (more…)
We wanted to create stylish text images for our page and post headings, but we didn’t want to create them in advance, we wanted them on the fly. This is a tutorial on how we accomplished this using PHP.
You’ll need PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) the open source dynamic language the code in our example is written. We won’t elaborate, the internet is full of information reguarding PHP. (more…)
