Combine 2-3 transparent PNG images on top of each other with PHP

Question

I am working on a custom avatar system for a project, but I have never really done much with the image side of PHP. I assume I need to use GD in some way, but I have no ide

Answer 1

Also can be done in this way. Hope this will be useful for future visitors.

$base = imagecreatefrompng('your base image path');
//logo is transparent: in this case stackoverflow logo
$logo = imagecreatefrompng("path for image with transparent background");

//Adjust paramerters according to your image
imagecopymerge_alpha($base, $logo, 60, 60, 0, 0, 300, 200, 100);

header('Content-Type: image/png');
imagepng($base);

//@see: http://php.net/manual/en/function.imagecopymerge.php for below function in first comment
function imagecopymerge_alpha($dst_im, $src_im, $dst_x, $dst_y, $src_x, $src_y, $src_w, $src_h, $pct){ 
        // creating a cut resource 
        $cut = imagecreatetruecolor($src_w, $src_h); 

        // copying relevant section from background to the cut resource 
        imagecopy($cut, $dst_im, 0, 0, $dst_x, $dst_y, $src_w, $src_h); 

        // copying relevant section from watermark to the cut resource 
        imagecopy($cut, $src_im, 0, 0, $src_x, $src_y, $src_w, $src_h); 

        // insert cut resource to destination image 
        imagecopymerge($dst_im, $cut, $dst_x, $dst_y, 0, 0, $src_w, $src_h, $pct); 
    } 

Working Example: This is background Image
This is stackoverflow logo.

This is combined Result.