[Phpwiki-talk] text2png plugin is checked in, needs help

[Carsten K. <car...@ma...>]

Hi,

I managed to surprise myself today by writing my first WikiPlugin! 
<?plugin text2png ?>

It creates a PNG image file, so that means it requires that PHP is 
compiled with "--with-gd" support for the GD Library 1.6 or later. 
<http://www.boutell.com/gd/>

The variable ttfont must point to a valid 'ttf' font file on your system. 
A Type 1 font can be used instead if PHP is compiled with "--with-t1lib".

Right now it just takes a hard-coded string "Hello WikiWorld!" and creates 
a png file of the same name and puts it into the same folder as index.php.
  Make sure the server has write permissions to that directory. A hypertext 
link to the file shows up on the Wiki page but it's not the correct url 
yet. You'll have to navigate to the correct directory yourself to view it.

I looked at the other plugin code but I'm having a lot of trouble getting 
any plugin arguments to work. Anyone want to give it a shot, to make it 
work with a text argument?

<?plugin text2png text="mytext" ?> ???

Once the plugin arguments are working it should be a breeze to produce 
localized buttons on the fly--I've already got some working php code which 
overlays text onto a existing images, it just needs a little tweaking to 
wrap it into a WikiPlugin.

Carsten