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Tue, 05 April 2011 03:19

jwcarlton
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I'm still working with imagettfbbox(). The problem I'm having now is
that I can't seem to refer to the TTF file unless it's in the actual
directory as the index.php file; if I give a relative or absolute
path, I'm getting an error:

Warning: imagettfbbox() [function.imagettfbbox]: Could not find/open
font in /home/accountname/public_html/variables.php on line 152

For this system, I have a variables.php file, located at the /
public_html/ directory. This is the file that uses imagettfbbox(),
like so:

$home = "http://www.example.com";

define("F_SIZE", 9);

// This is the problem line, # 152 in the error
define("F_FONT", "arialbd.ttf");

function get_bbox($text) {
return imagettfbbox(F_SIZE, 0, F_FONT, $text);
}

Now, if I'm loading index.php that's in the same directory as
variables.php, then this works fine (obviously). In other directories,
though, it (obviously) can't find the arialbd.ttf file.

In all files, I'm including variables.php like so:

include "../variables.php";

I've tried the following variations, but still get the same errors:

// Found this recommendation somewhere
define("F_FONT", "./arialbd.ttf");

// URLs are supposed to be OK
define("F_FONT", "$home/arialbd.ttf");

// Using no variables, just type the URL straight in
define("F_FONT", "http://www.example.com/arialbd.ttf");

// Thought that a relative path would at least work
// on the second-level directories
define("F_FONT", "../arialbd.ttf");

Finally, I tried removing define(), and switching to global variables,
but had the same error:

$f_size = "9";
$f_font = "$home/arialbd.ttf";

function get_bbox($text) {
global $f_size;
global $f_font;

return imagettfbbox($f_size, 0, $f_font, $text);
}

Can you guys tell me the correct way to define the path to arialbd.ttf
here?

TIA,

Jason

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		More with imagettfbbox(); absolute url not working? By: jwcarlton on Tue, 05 April 2011 03:19
		Re: More with imagettfbbox(); absolute url not working? By: Mr. B-o-B on Tue, 05 April 2011 04:19
		Re: More with imagettfbbox(); absolute url not working? By: jwcarlton on Tue, 05 April 2011 05:23
		Re: More with imagettfbbox(); absolute url not working? By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 05 April 2011 09:09
		Re: More with imagettfbbox(); absolute url not working? By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Tue, 05 April 2011 07:17
		Re: More with imagettfbbox(); absolute url not working? By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 05 April 2011 09:25
		Re: More with imagettfbbox(); absolute url not working? By: jwcarlton on Tue, 05 April 2011 21:01

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