LTMagic/TDraw
Wrappers for ImageMagick for PHP for true object oriented scripting
..., $im_y - 33, $x_axis);
Do it in one line:
$draw->Tfont ("Arial-bold", 24)->Talign ("center")->Ttext ($im_x - 45, $im_y - 33, $x_axis);
LTImagic/TDraw also seeks to address some of the shortcomings of PHP's Imagick, such as verbose code, inconsistent returning of Imagick objects or booleans, uniting several steps into a single function, combining set/get functions.