Displaying price with use of images

Hi,

I want to display prices with use of images instead of plain HTML (CSS).

Is this possible? Maybe use of the GDlibrary and some phpfunctions?

grmx

Can do - but then not alterable from the admin side and one would have to create another image to manually apply if and when a price change or added product was added

kobra:

Can do - but then not alterable from the admin side and one would have to create another image to manually apply if and when a price change or added product was added

I ment the price on the product-info and the prices on product-index page.
I want those prices dynamically be converted to graphics/images instead.

For example take a look at the price-box on this site:

http://www.thomann.de/gb/yamaha_erg121_gp_ii_bl.htm

grmx

I want those prices dynamically be converted to graphics/images instead.
No clue how to "Dymanically" convert to images....People in the Desert want Ice Water too!!:lol:

kobra:

No clue how to "Dymanically" convert to images....People in the Desert want Ice Water too!!:lol:

:D
many thanks anyway!

That site has each character in the prices converted to an image. The "2", "3", "8", ".", and "-" are all separate images, as are all the small numbers.

Someone could write a function to take a string and replace it with a group of <img> calls, and then apply it to the price output...

gjh42:

That site has each character in the prices converted to an image. The "2", "3", "8", ".", and "-" are all separate images, as are all the small numbers.

Someone could write a function to take a string and replace it with a group of <img> calls, and then apply it to the price output...

Yeah, you're right. It's a little bit more complex.

Thanks for triggering!

Yes and I did not want to get into that but as the subject has been opened - it is akin to remapping a keyboard - a DB lookup table and a mini (numbers and $ . etc)remap of the characters

I actually had a slightly different idea that is akin to creating dynamic images:

<?php 

header("Content-type: image/jpeg"); 
$string = $_GET['image']; 

$image = imagecreatefrompng("linkto/thebackground/image.gif"); 
$color = imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 255, 250); 
$font = "http://www.yoursite.com/linkto/fontyou/want/to/use.ttf"; 

imagestring($image, $font, 0, 0, $string, $color); 

imagejpeg($image); 
imagedestroy($image); 

?> 
```(I got this from: <http://www.ngxdesigns.com/tutorials/view/?action=view&id=11>)

Now basically you could also do this:

<?php
header('Content-type: image/png');
$text = $_GET['text'];

$im = imagecreatefrompng COLOR=#007700;

if($text == "ADMINISTRATOR"){ //if administrator
$color = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 0, 0); //red
}
elseif($text == "MODERATOR"){ //if moderator
$color = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 255); //blue
}
elseif($text == "JUNKIE"){ //if junkie
$color = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0); //black
}
else { //something else...
$color = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 128, 0); //green
}

$font = 'font.ttf'; //font file
$fontsize = 6; //font size
$stringsize = imagettfbbox($fontsize, 0, $font, $text); //calculate the pixel of the string
$dx = (imagesxCOLOR=#007700) - ([/COLOR]absCOLOR=#007700) - [/COLOR]20; //calculate the location to start the text
imagettftext($im, $fontsize, 0, $dx, 13, $color, $font, $text);
imagepngCOLOR=#007700;
[/COLOR]imagedestroyCOLOR=#007700;
[/COLOR]?>
[/COLOR]

">
with 
```
<img src="http://www.yourdomain.com/generator.php?text=JUNKIE" />

```as seen on <http://forum.codecall.net/php-tutorials/1624-php-tutorial-getting-know-gd.html>

But I am unsure to how to cause the admin to take in the price and then display it as such in the products at this time.

I think it would be a combination of taking the product cost variables and its display variables and then just adding the appropriate code.

Would anyone know where this is?

Maybe we have to look at the zen_get_products_display_price function in

includes/functions/functions_prices.php

This function returns the price

grmx