I am currently using Intervention class to write a text on images.
writing is easily possible using text() method:
$img->text('The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.', 120, 100);
but my problem is that I want each character of a word with a different font. for example, imagine the word test, each character must use a different font. this is not easily possible since I can't find the position to start the next character, for instance in the word test, when I write t then when I want to call the text() method to write e, I don't know where should I set the position so the character e goes right after t.
How can I get the position of the last character so I can start writing the next character where the last one ends? or is there any other way to achieve this?
This is the method I use to get the width of a string.
I use imagettftext(), so it may not suit you. But this code works.
So if you have to choose between nothing and a code that works...
$type_space = imagettfbbox($size, 0, $font, $text); // 0 = angle
$text_width = abs($type_space[4] - $type_space[6]);
imagettfbbox returns an array of values.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.imagettfbbox.php
Imagettfbbox() returns an array with 8 elements representing four points making the bounding box of the text:
0 lower left corner, X position
1 lower left corner, Y position
2 lower right corner, X position
3 lower right corner, Y position
4 upper right corner, X position
5 upper right corner, Y position
6 upper left corner, X position
7 upper left corner, Y position
The code takes upper right x - upper left x which should mean width.