PHP GD ttftext center alignment

Question

I\'m using imagettftext to make a bar graph and at the top of each bar I want to put the value.

I have the fol

Answer 1

Do it like this. Remember to place the font file "arial.ttf" in current directory:

 0)
        {
            $drawsize = $size - 1;
            $drawX = $x1 + $lastdifference / 2;
            break;
        }
        $lastdifference = $maxwidth - $width;
    }
    $size--;
    imagettftext($im, $drawsize, 0, $drawX, $y1 - 2, $allocatedcolor, $font, $text);
}

// Output to browser
header('Content-type: image/png');

imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>

It uses imagettfbbox function to get width of the text, then loops over the font size to get correct size, centers it and displays it.

So, it outputs the following: