Outputting image with underlined text using php GD library

Question

What is the best way to display underlined text and output the result as image with GD or any other library?

Answer 1

You can try using the Unicode underline combining character U+0332.

<?php
// Set the content-type
header('Content-type: image/png');

// Create the image
$im = imagecreatetruecolor(400, 30);

// Create some colors
$white = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
imagefilledrectangle($im, 0, 0, 399, 29, $white);

// The text to draw
$text = "&#x0332;U&#x0332;d&#x0332;e&#x0332;r&#x0332;l&#x0332;i&#x0332;n&#x0332;e";
// Replace path by your own font path
$font = 'arial.ttf';


// Add the text
imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 10, 20, $black, $font, $text);

// Using imagepng() results in clearer text compared with imagejpeg()
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>

Answer 2

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HTH

Answer 3

I am using this...

    $font = imageloadfont($font_file);  
$font_width = ImageFontWidth($font);
$font_height = ImageFontHeight($font);
    $str_width = strlen($text)*$font_width;
    ImageLine($image, $left, $top+$font_height, $left+$str_width,  $top+$font_height, $color);