Help with PHP Image & Random Symbols.

[Rickmasta]

Well, I'm fairly new to PHP and trying to build a little personal Image that would display my latest twitter, so that I can put it in my forum signatures and such, and maybe when I'm done with it, I can make it into a generator ( It would be simple )

I have just about everything done, but the actual image. I get a whole bunch of symbols, and It's only when I include my page that pulls the information for the 1 status message.

Here's the source to one of many ways I tried this,

PHP Code:

<?php
include("includes.php");
header("Content-Type: image/png");
$im = imagecreatefrompng("http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a287/Rickmasta185/149d6e5d2da9f136898079693.png");



if ($im)
{
ImageString($im,  1,  17,  4,  $final,  2);


ImagePNG($im);
}
?>

That's only one of the ways I've tried to organize it. (Don't worry about the picture, it was a random box I found)


And here's the code to the includes.php

PHP Code:

<?php    
require_once( './my_twitter.php' );



$twitter =  new MyTwitter('TwitterUser', 'TwitterPass');

$status = $twitter->userTimeLine();

$total = count(1);


    
for ( $i=0; $i < $total ; $i++ )
        { 
        
        
        $final = $status[$i]['text'];
        
        }
        
?>

I know that the TwitterUser and Pass has to be changed, I just changed it here, but can anyone else me?
I've been trying to figure this thing out for hours, and nothing.

It'll be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in Advance
~Rick

[timgolding]

The output your referring to is the image in raw text format. If for instance you changed the line to

PHP Code:

ImagePNG($im, 'myimage.png'); 


and put a file in your folder called myimage.png and chmod that to 777. And took out the line

PHP Code:

header("Content-Type: image/png"); 


Then it would store it as a png image to the file myimage.png. However i guess you want the php file to display the image. Which i am still working on

[timgolding]

Anyway i have had a play and i got this script working. I signed up to twitter especially to help and downloaded the mytwitter class. And your code works. The code i used is identical. Look for yourself.

http://cybadev.co.uk/timmy.php

I can include that in an img tag in html like so

<img src="http://cybadev.co.uk/timmy.php" alt="" />

The only thing that might be wrong is you have got error reporting turned off on your server and the headers are already being sent. This is a problem i had and it was because the twitter class i downloaded had a few whitspaces after the PHP closing tag ?> I removed the whitespaces which meant the headers wern't already being sent so i didnt get that warning anymore and then the line

PHP Code:

header('Content-type: image/png'); 


worked.

Well im 100% sure that the code above is not working for you since its displaying the image in raw text format and can only imagine your not receiving a warning about this because error reporting is turned off on your server. I suggest going through your files my_twitter.php and includes.php and making sure there are no white spaces before or after the <?php and ?>

To test if error reporting is turned off just type some goobledygook in a file run it and see if it returns and error something like this

PHP Code:

<?php
$timmy= 423862y3r 7qtsd6rtq0e12lad'sd'ad;adkosajd8q;
?>

If this gives a blank then you know error reporting is turned off. If it says

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in .......

then error reporting is turned on and i don't know whats stopping your header function working :/