Printing .GIF images with PHP

Question

Hello,
As part of a PHP IF statement, I would like to print an image
instead of text. How do I do this?
Thanks in advance,
John

Answer 1

I've done some dabbling in PHP's GD library (the image
manipulation extension of PHP).
What I have done in the past is create a separate php file
just for the image output. I then pass in the parameters needed to
create the image in the image request. So as an example, I'd send
the image request like so:
http://domain.com/preview_image.php?text_string=Type%20Text%20Here&text_color=black&bg_col or=white&font=ADORABLE
preview_image.php is the php file that contains the script to
generate the image based off of the text_string, text_color, and
bg_color variables contained in the query parameters.
Or if you don't need a dynamic image, just echo the image tag
inside the if statement:
echo "<img src='pathtoimage.jpg'>;