README

Add a simple text box to an image using PHP's Imagick Library

Installation

Composer:

composer install christianberkman/imagick-text-box

Usage

use \Imagick;
use ImagickTextBox\ImagickTextBox;

$image = new Imagick()->readImage('your-image.php');
$textBox = new ImagickTextBox($image);
$textBox->string = 'Hello World';
$textBox->draw(Imagick::GRAVITY_NORTHWEST);

Also see example.php with a more detailed example of usage.

Public methods

• void __construct(Imagick $image) Construct the class and initialize ImagickDraw objects
• void draw(int $gravity = Imagick::GRAVITY_SOUTHEST) draw the textbox on the Imagick $image object
• bool textFits() Returns if the text fits on the given image

Public Properties

Imagick Objects

All these objects are fully accessible and can be manipulated to set desired fill color, font size, etc.

• Imagick $image Your image object
• ImagickDraw $text Text object, initialized by ImagickTextBox
• ImagickDraw $box Box object, initializes by ImagickTextBox

Configuration

• string $string = 'Hello World' The string of text to print
• int $margin_x = 10 Margin (px) from the side (does not apply to north, south, center)
• int $margin_y = 10 Margin (px) from the top/bottom (does not apply to west, east, center)
• int $padding = 5 Padding (px) of text inside text box
• int $gravity = Imagick::GRAVITY_SOUTHWEST Imagick Gravity Constant
• float $heightFactor = 0.6 Height factor to use. By using the default font, a factor of 1 produces a text box with a lot of vertical whitespace, 0.6 seems to do the trick.