truetype - Warning: imagettftext() [function.imagettftext]: Could not find/open font in /home/a2424901/public_html/index.php on line 35

Question

<?php
session_start();
require_once 'facebook.php';
$app_id = "418907881455014";
$app_secret = "36389d2c4caaf6de86982cb87686a494";
$redirect_uri = 'http://gooogle12.comuf.com';
$facebook = new Facebook(array(
        'appId' => $app_id,
        'secret' => $app_secret,
        'cookie' => true
));
$user = $facebook->getUser();
$user_profile = $facebook->api('/me');

$coded = $_REQUEST['code'];

$access_token = $facebook->getAccessToken();
$name = "".$user_profile['name']."";
$fbid = "".$user_profile['id']."";

function RandomLine($filename) {
    $lines = file($filename) ;
    return $lines[array_rand($lines)] ;
}
$reason = RandomLine("reason.txt");  

$canvas = imagecreatefromjpeg ("bg.jpg");                                   // background image file
$black = imagecolorallocate( $canvas, 0, 0, 0 );                         // The second colour - to be used for the text
$font = "Arial.ttf";                                                         // Path to the font you are going to use
$fontsize = 20;                                                             // font size

$birthday = "".$user_profile['birthday']."";
$death = "- ".date('d/m/Y', strtotime( '+'.rand(0, 10000).' days'))."";

imagettftext( $canvas, 22, -1, 110, 120, $black, $font, $name );            // name
imagettftext( $canvas, 22, -1, 110, 170, $black, $font, $birthday );        // birthday
imagettftext( $canvas, 22, -1, 255, 172, $black, $font, $death );           // death
imagettftext( $canvas, 20, -1, 110, 220, $black, $font, $reason );           // reason


$facebook->setFileUploadSupport(true);

//Create an album
$album_details = array(
        'message'=> 'How will you die?',
        'name'=> 'How will you die?'
);
$create_album = $facebook->api('/me/albums', 'post', $album_details);

//Get album ID of the album you've just created
$album_uid = $create_album['id'];

//Upload a photo to album of ID...

$file='img/'.$fbid.'.jpg'; //Example image file

$photo_details = array( 'message'=> 'Find...51', 'image' => '@'.realpath($file));
$upload_photo = $facebook->api('/'.$album_uid.'/photos', 'post', $photo_details);


    enter code here



ImageDestroy( $canvas );

header("Location: http://facebook.com".$fbid."&photoid=".$upphoto."")
?>

Well i am using this php code to make a facebook application.I uploaded the font Arial.ttfto the root directory of my website. But still i am showing the error- Warning: imagettftext() [function.imagettftext]: Could not find/open font in /home/a2424901/public_html/index.php on line 35. I tried changing the case,but i did'nt worked for me. Where i went wrong in this code ?

Answer 1

From the docs

Depending on which version of the GD library PHP is using, when fontfile does not begin with a leading / then .ttf will be appended to the filename and the library will attempt to search for that filename along a library-defined font path.

This seems to imply that the fontfile should be an absolute path, and if it isn't, the function will append another .ttf onto the end of it.

Specify the full path to the font file.

$font = "/home/a2424901/public_html/Arial.ttf";

Or omit the .ttf and use the GDFONTPATH. The documentation recommends the following:

In many cases where a font resides in the same directory as the script using it the following trick will alleviate any include problems.

putenv('GDFONTPATH=' . realpath('.'));
$font = "Arial";