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img4me just released an API to their text to image service. This basically allows you to send any peice of text through a URL and have it convert it into an image. Now you wouldn’t want to convert a whole paragraph, but this does work especially nice for email addresses or other information you don’t want to be crawled by the search bots.

Here is a quick function that allows you to easily add this to any project.

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function img4me($text,$font,$fcolor,$size,$bcolor,$type)
{
	/*
	Parameters
	text*		= text to be converted. (required)
	font		= arial, comic, georgia, impact, lucida, simsun, tahoma, times, trebuchet, verdana (default: courier)
	size		= font size in number 5-35 (default: 12)
	fcolor	= font color in HEX (default: 000000)
	bcolor	= background color in HEX - leave empty for transparent background
	type		= gif, jpg, png (default: png)
	*/

	if(!empty($text))
	{
		$optional = array('font','fcolor','size','bgcolor','type');
		foreach($optional as $key => $value){
			if(!empty($$value)){$get_prams .= '&'.$value.'='.$$value;}
		}

		$url = 'http://api.img4me.com/?text='.urlencode($text).$get_prams;

		$ch = curl_init($url);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,1);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER,0);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
		$return_data = curl_exec($ch);
		return '';
	}
	else{return 'error: text was empty';}
}

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