How to draw a shape using a piece of image in php

Question

I need to create a frame image by using a piece of an image.

For Example:

User will upload a image piece from back-end:

Now I n

Answer 1

Preprocessing the image is vital

Whether done manually by you, or on the fly somehow through a GD library, you absolutely at the least need to take the image you state you are receiving...

...and crop and tighten it to make it clean like this (with no white space around the edges and the notch/cut removed):

Then you have an image you can actually work with.

Otherwise, PURE CSS / JAVASCRIPT

NOTE: I am not doing the javascript here. It would be used to dynamically set the element sizing as seen in the html.

Normally I would use a judicious amount of :before and ':after' pseudo elements to keep the html less cluttered, but since you need dynamic sizing of the frame, then we need to use a number of nested div elements to set dynamic styles for widths and heights that are critical to some of the div elements (some of which would still be pseudo elements if javascript could access those or if dynamic sizing was not needed).

NOTE: So far I have only tested this in Chrome and Firefox. Really old browsers are for sure going to fail miserably.

/* implementation of framing */

    .frameit {
        /* width and height must be set dynamically by javascript see html */ 
        position: relative;
        box-sizing: border-box;
        overflow: hidden;
        padding: 20px; /* at least border size */
    }

    .frameit:before,
    .frameit:after,
    .frameit .sides > div,
    .frameit .corner > div {
        position: absolute;
        background-image: url(http://i.stack.imgur.com/vAgqj.jpg);
        background-size: 100% 20px; /* 100% and border size */
        height: 20px; /* equal to border width of frameit div */
    }

    .frameit:before {
        content: '';
        top: 0;
        left: 0;
        right: 0;
    }

    .frameit:after {
        content: '';
        bottom: 0;
        left: 0;
        right: 0;
    }

    .frameit .sides {
        position: absolute;
        top: 0;
        right: 0;
        bottom: 0;
        left: 0;
        z-index: 1;
    }

    .frameit .sides > div {
        /* width must be set dynamically by javascript see html */ 
        height: 20px;
    }

    .frameit .sides > div:first-child {
        top: 0;
        left: 20px; /* border width */
        transform-origin: 0 0;
        transform: rotate(90deg);
    }

    .frameit .sides > div:last-child  {
        bottom: 0;
        right: 20px; /* border width */
        transform-origin: 100% 100%;
        transform: rotate(90deg);
    }

    .frameit .sides ~ .corner { /* all corners */
        position: absolute;
        z-index: 2;
        width: 29px; /* square root of ((border-width squared) x 2) round up */
        height: 29px; /* match width */
        overflow: hidden;
    }

    .frameit .TL {
        top: 0;
        left: 0;
        transform-origin: 0 0;
        transform: rotate(-45deg);
    }

    .frameit .TL > div {
        top: inherit;
        left: inherit;
        transform-origin: inherit;
        transform: rotate(45deg);
    }

    .frameit .TR {
        top: 0;
        right: 0;
        transform-origin: 100% 0;
        transform: rotate(45deg);
    }

    .frameit .TR > div {
        top: 0;
        right: 0;
        transform-origin: 100% 0;
        transform: rotate(-45deg);
    }

    .frameit .BR {
        bottom: 0;
        right: 0;
        transform-origin: 100% 100%;
        transform: rotate(-45deg);
    }

    .frameit .BR > div {
       bottom: inherit;
       right: inherit;
       transform-origin: inherit;
       transform: rotate(45deg);
    }

    .frameit .BL {
        bottom: 0;
        left: 0;
        transform-origin: 0 100%;
        transform: rotate(45deg);
    }

    .frameit .BL > div {
        bottom: inherit;
        left: inherit;
        transform-origin: inherit;
        transform: rotate(-45deg);
    }

    /* Optional shading to help define the joint */
    .frameit .sides > div:first-child:before,
    .frameit .sides > div:last-child:before {
       content: '';
       position: absolute;
       top: 0;
       right: 0;
       left: 0;
       bottom: 0;
       background-color: rgba(0,0,0,.07);
    }