Email to Image

Enter an email address and click create.

Description

This script is a means to convert a string of text into an jpg image. This has uses such as displying email addresses that cannot be programmaticly found. This can help to reduce the possibilty of yur email address being picked up by web crawlers and used for junk mail.

How To Use

To use the example interface above, simply modify or insert the string of text and click create. Then right click and save the jpg image that is produced.

To use the php script within a website, you can do the following:-

Instead of producing

[email protected] by using the code <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>

This tool can allow

by using the code <img src="exemail.jpg" width="120" height="16">

Further Uses and Ideas:

How it Works:

The PHP Script

header("Content-type: image/jpg"); if (!isset($string)) { $string = "No Data"; } $font = 4; // font size $width = ImageFontWidth($font) * strlen($string); // calculate image width $height = ImageFontHeight($font); // calculate image height $im = @imagecreate ($width,$height); $background_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255); // background colour $text_color = imagecolorallocate ($im, 0, 0,0); // text colour imagestring ($im, $font, 0, 0, $string, $text_color); imagejpeg ($im);

Relevant Links

PHP Manual - imagestring - http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.imagestring.php

PHP Manual - imagejpeg - http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.imagejpeg.php