Using the imagettftext function with multiple lines? Anyone done this before?

Question

I\'m creating transparent text -> png images with php and so far so good. The only problem is that I want the ability to have the text word wrap due to a fixed width.. Or alter

Answer 1

Of all the answers posted I liked Genius in trouble's the best but it just adds a linebreak every 15 characters rather than letting the text "flow" as it would in a modern word processor with variable line lengths depending on font choice & which characters are used (e.g. lowercase L takes less horizontal space than uppercase W--l vs. W).

I came up with a solution which I've released as open source at https://github.com/andrewgjohnson/linebreaks4imagettftext

To use you would simply change:

$font = 'arial.ttf';
$text = 'Cool Stuff! this is nice LALALALALA LALA HEEH EHEHE';
$fontSize = 20;
$bounds = imagettfbbox($fontSize, 0, $font, $text); 
$width = abs($bounds[4]-$bounds[6]); 

To:

$font = 'arial.ttf';
$text = 'Cool Stuff! this is nice LALALALALA LALA HEEH EHEHE';
$fontSize = 20;
$bounds = imagettfbbox($fontSize, 0, $font, $text); 
$width = abs($bounds[4]-$bounds[6]);

// new code to add the "\n" line break characters to $text
require_once('linebreaks4imagettftext.php'); //https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andrewgjohnson/linebreaks4imagettftext/master/source/linebreaks4imagettftext.php
$text = \andrewgjohnson\linebreaks4imagettftext($fontSize, 0, $font, $text, $width);

Here is an example of the before & after with a longer piece of text: