I’d been having a lot of trouble getting my Ubuntu machine to render TTFs with GD in PHP. So much trouble that I’d even tried crazy things like recompiling PHP. Luckily I found this post on excitris.com and I was able to solve all of my problems with one line of code. Since the code on their site is completely mangled, here it is:
putenv('GDFONTPATH=' . realpath('.'));
Now I can use dynamic text replacement without going insane.
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My name is Joey Nelson. I'm a web developer living in Raleigh, NC and working with Node.js, MongoDB, Ruby, PHP, jQuery and some other stuff. More about me.
hi,
it seems to be exactly what i am looking for. i am also going crazy, trying to recompile php under ubuntu. i search how to get ttf working under gd using apt-get commands, without success.
i have a question regarding your post. which file do i have to modify? php.ini?
thanks,
pht3k
just put that line in your actual php file above your GD code.