Combine 2 or more pictures in PHP

Question

Imagine I have 2 pictures, imagea.jpg and imageb.jpg

ImageA

Image A

ImageB

Image B

I want to combine these both pictures un just 1 and output them to a file imageab.jpg, just like here

ImageA ImageB

I will do this running cron jobs, so I need to do that on PHP, but I'm getting troubles with previous codes. As additional information, I'm getting the ImageA/B URLs from MySQL and all pictures have the same width and height.

Thanks!

Possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9341967/merge-pictures-in-php — Vyktor, Feb 18 '12 at 15:52

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 18 '12 at 15:50

You can use imagecopymerge:

Something like this:

$dest = imagecreatefromgjpg('imagea.jpg');
$src = imagecreatefromjpg('imageb.jpg');

// Copy and merge
imagecopymerge($dest, $src, 10, 10, 0, 0, 100, 47, 75);

// Output and free from memory
header('Content-Type: image/jpeg');

imagejpeg($dest);

imagedestroy($dest);
imagedestroy($src);

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 18 '12 at 15:36

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Imagick is your friend.

For example Imagick::appendImages.

answered Feb 18 '12 at 15:36

markus

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This is the correct answer, but how can I make it, can you edit with the code? Thanks! – Luis Feb 18 '12 at 15:38
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What code would you need, everything you need to know is in the manual? – markus Feb 18 '12 at 15:41
Yes, but they are doing images from colors, I want to know how to do the same but with previously done images (image url). Thanks! – Luis Feb 18 '12 at 15:42
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Exactly the same but instead you load the images first with Imagick::readImage. – markus Feb 18 '12 at 15:44

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 18 '12 at 15:40

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Take a look at GD and imagemagick, they are plenty of functions that can help you: http://php.net/manual/en/function.imagecopymerge.php

edited Feb 18 '12 at 15:40

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answered Feb 18 '12 at 15:38

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