PHP Image and text merge

 Q. I possess both an image and a string, for example, 'Test' and image is 'sample.jpg'. Provide a PHP code that combines the string 'Test' with the image 'sample.jpg', merging them into a single image 'output.jpg'.

Solution:

<?php
// Function to merge text and image using default font
function mergeTextAndImage($text, $imagePath, $outputPath) {
    // Load the image
    $image = imagecreatefromjpeg($imagePath);
    // Set the text color Red
    $textColor = imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 0, 0);
    // Set the font size
    $fontSize = 5;

    // Set the position to place the text on the image
    $x = 10; // X-coordinate
    $y = 30; // Y-coordinate

    // Merge text onto the image using default font
    imagestring($image, $fontSize, $x, $y, $text, $textColor);

    // Save the merged image
    imagejpeg($image, $outputPath); // Change this based on your image type

    // Free up memory
    imagedestroy($image);
}

// Example usage
$text = 'Test';
$imagePath = 'sample.jpg'; // Change this to the path of your image
$outputPath = 'output.jpg'; // Change this to the desired output path

mergeTextAndImage($text, $imagePath, $outputPath);
?>
<img src="output.jpg">