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Merging images side by side with PHP and GD
Previously I wrote a script example of merging transparents PNG's side by side so here is a JPG version of the code.
- <?php
- ini_set('display_errors', 1);
- ini_set('memory_limit', -1);
- //where are the images stored
- $src_dir = './';
- //because our images were named as number i.e. 0.png, 1.png, 2.png, 3.png etc etc, using the range()
- $numbers = range(1, 10); //we have 10 images as a sample
- $dest_w = 0;
- foreach ($numbers as $key => $val)
- {
- $src = $src_dir . $val . '.jpg';
- $size = getimagesize($src);
- $src_gds[$key]['img'] = imagecreatefromjpeg($src);
- $src_gds[$key]['w'] = $size[0];
- $src_gds[$key]['h'] = $size[1];
- $dest_w += $src_gds[$key]['w'];
- $hts[] = $src_gds[$key]['h'];
- }
- $dest_h = max($hts);
- $dest_gd = imagecreatetruecolor($dest_w, $dest_h);
- $dest_x = 0;
- foreach ($src_gds as $gd)
- {
- imagecopymerge($dest_gd, $gd['img'], $dest_x, 0, 0, 0, $gd['w'], $gd['h'], 99);
- $dest_x += $gd['w'];
- imagedestroy($gd['img']);
- }
- header ("Content-type: image/jpeg");
- imagejpeg($dest_gd);
- imagedestroy($dest_gd);
- ?>