Putting images onto other another image based on user input

PHP
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I am after a bit of help if possible guys, I’m unsure if this should be in the PHP section or somewhere else, but as I’d choose PHP by default I felt best to stick it in here (EDITJust realised it should probably have gone in the “General Application Design and Theory” forum)
I am wanting to create a new part of my site that will allow users to have their name (or the words they choose) spelt out in images.

What I will have is a range of images covering each letter in the alphabet and I want these to be put onto an image that I have for a background to them.
So if “Billy” wants his name put onto the background, each of the images of the 5 characters in Billys name will be put over the background image (basically to make a personalised background)
I think this should make sence?! :slight_smile:

I’m just at a loss as to where to start so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers
Wardy

Edit:I think it should perhaps have been posted in the “General Application Design and Theory” foum.

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Assuming you want to do this in PHP, start looking at the GD and Image Functions.

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It could be done using ImageMagick :-
1/ Create an image from the characters with a transparent background.
2/ Composite it over the original image.

There are some examples here: Text examples

I would think you would want to start with the code that created this ( Text is created from images ):