well would somthing like this work a friend told me this and he wans't sure how to qwite make it in to the img for the php
<?php
// Ruff Dawg's 'Now Playing Sig w/ Background v. 1.5 May 7, 2004
// Special thanks to the originator, DJ Rampage
// This image you can call immediately from an html file in the image tag
// (i.e. <img src="black.php">) easy huh?
Header("Content-type: image/png");
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//////////////////////////////*Configurables*//////////////////////////////
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/////////////////////*Background Picture File*////////////////////////
/* Replace "sicpic.png" with your own
picture file (must be a .png) */
$im = imagecreatefrompng("sig.png");
/////////////////////////////*Host Information*/////////////////////////////
$host = "66.90.80.66"; // No 'http://' in the host
$port = "8390";
$host2 = "66.90.80.66"; // No 'http://' in the host
$port2 = "8415";
//////////////////////////////////*Text Colors*////////////////////////////////
// text colors are in RGB
$text_color1 = ImageColorAllocate($im,255,255,255);
$text_color2 = ImageColorAllocate($im,255,255,255);
////////////////////////////////////*Text Size*/////////////////////////////////
$text_size = "3";
//////////////////////////////*Text Alignment these coords fit in 250x50 png*/////////////////////////////
//X alignment
$x1 = "40";
$x2 = "44";
$x3 = "72";
$x4 = "72";
//Y alignment
$y1 = "24";
$y2 = "7";
$y3 = "42";
$y4 = "42";
///////////////////////////*Offline Message*///////////////////////////////
$offline1 = "Is Down For Maintenance";
$offline2 = "Unsigned Online";
$offline3 = "Offline";
$offline4 = "Offline";
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/////*DON'T TOUCH THE CODE BELOW UNLESS//////////
///YOU KNOW EXACTALLY WHAT YOU ARE DOING*//
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
$fp = fsockopen("$host", $port, &$errno, &$errstr, 30);
if(!$fp) {
$success=2;
}
if($success!=2){ //if connection
fputs($fp,"GET /7.html HTTP/1.0\r\nUser-Agent: XML Getter (Mozilla Compatible)\r\n\r\n");
while(!feof($fp)) {
$page .= fgets($fp, 1000);
}
fclose($fp);
$page = ereg_replace(".*<body>", "", $page); //extract data
$page = ereg_replace("</body>.*", ",", $page); //extract data
$numbers = explode(",",$page);
$currentlisteners=$numbers[0];
$connected=$numbers[1];
if($connected==1)
$wordconnected="yes";
else
$wordconnected="no";
$peaklisteners=$numbers[2];
$maxlisteners=$numbers[3];
$reportedlisteners=$numbers[4];
}
if($success!=2 && $connected==1){
$song=explode(" - ",$numbers[6]);
$string1= $song[1];
$string2= $song[0];
$string3 = ($currentlisteners+$currentlisteners2) . "/" . ($maxlisteners+$maxlisteners2);
}
else {
$string1= $offline1;
$string2= $offline2;
$string3= $offline3;
}
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/////*code for second server needs to be cleaned up don't really need artist & song info but need to handle if server 1 or server 2 offline do what?*/////////////////////////////////
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
$fp2 = fsockopen("$host2", $port2, &$errno2, &$errstr2, 30);
if(!$fp2) {
$success2=2;
}
if($success2!=2){ //if connection
fputs($fp2,"GET /7.html HTTP/1.0\r\nUser-Agent: XML Getter (Mozilla Compatible)\r\n\r\n");
while(!feof($fp2)) {
$page2 .= fgets($fp2, 1000);
}
fclose($fp2);
$page2 = ereg_replace(".*<body>", "", $page2); //extract data
$page2 = ereg_replace("</body>.*", ",", $page2); //extract data
$numbers2 = explode(",",$page2);
$currentlisteners2=$numbers2[0];
$connected2=$numbers2[1];
if($connected2==1)
$wordconnected2="yes";
else
$wordconnected2="no";
$peaklisteners2=$numbers2[2];
$maxlisteners2=$numbers2[3];
$reportedlisteners2=$numbers2[4];
}
if($success2!=2 && $connected2==1){
$song2=explode(" - ",$numbers2[6]);
$string12= $song2[1];
$string22= $song2[0];
$string3 = ($currentlisteners+$currentlisteners2) . "/" . ($maxlisteners+$maxlisteners2);
}
else {
$string12= $offline1;
$string22= $offline2;
$string32= $offline3;
$string4= $offline4;
}
$px = (imagesx($im)-5*strlen($string1))/2;
ImageString($im,$text_size,$x1,$y1,$string1,$text_color1);
$px = (imagesx($im)-5*strlen($string2))/2;
ImageString($im,$text_size,$x2,$y2,$string2,$text_color1);
$px = (imagesx($im)-5*strlen($string3))/2;
ImageString($im,$text_size,$x3,$y3,$string3,$text_color2);
$px = (imagesx($im)-5*strlen($string4))/2;
ImageString($im,$text_size,$x4,$y4,$string4,$text_color2);
ImagePng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>