nicoverbruggen/image-generator

Generate placeholder images with a specific size, color and text (optional).

Image Generator

This package is intended to be used for quickly generating placeholder images with a specific size, color and text. For more complex use cases, you may want to turn to something like stil/gd-text., _(*1)

Requirements

• PHP 8.1 or higher
• GD extension

Usage

Make sure you require this package in your composer.json:, _(*2)

composer require nicoverbruggen/image-generator

See the example source file that is used to generate and save the sample images. You can generate the following examples:, _(*3)

, _(*4)

Please note that for testing purposes, I used Roboto Black as the TrueType font. (This font is not included in this repository.), _(*5)

You can also check out the other source file. You can point your browser directly at this file (assuming you're running a PHP server, of course) and it will directly return a file since the path is set to null., _(*6)

Notes

If you do not supply a TrueType font path: * you will be limited in font size options (1 through 5) * you will not be able to render multiline text, _(*7)

Tests

./vendor/bin/phpunit tests

Contributions

I am not planning to expand the features of this package at this time. If you've made an improvement or fixed something, you are free to send me a pull request., _(*8)

License

MIT., _(*9)

See also: LICENSE., _(*10)