(PHP 4, PHP 5)
imagettfbbox — Give the bounding box of a text using TrueType fonts
This function calculates and returns the bounding box in pixels for a TrueType text.
The font size in pixels
Angle in degrees in which text will be measured
The name of the TrueType font file (can be a URL). Depending on which version of the GD library that PHP is using, it may attempt to search for files that do not begin with a leading '/' by appending '.ttf' to the filename and searching along a library-defined font path
The string to be measured
imagettfbbox() returns an array with 8 elements representing four points making the bounding box of the text:
| 0 | lower left corner, X position |
| 1 | lower left corner, Y position |
| 2 | lower right corner, X position |
| 3 | lower right corner, Y position |
| 4 | upper right corner, X position |
| 5 | upper right corner, Y position |
| 6 | upper left corner, X position |
| 7 | upper left corner, Y position |
The points are relative to the text regardless of the angle , so "upper left" means in the top left-hand corner seeing the text horizontally.
Note: This function requires both the GD library and the » FreeType library.