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Dynamic "AQUA" Buttons
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    2003-10-25

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    Create dynamic "Aqua" style link buttons with the text of your choice.

    By : FatherStorm

    ##########################################
    #Use this function in your pages. You may need to
    # modify the $buttonpath to a absolute URL
    # depending on where you stick the button
    # rendering page. The file used is included and
    # needs to be in the same directory as the
    # buttun.php file.
    # this code requires GD
    # FatherStorm www.fatherstorm.com
    # mail@fatherstorm.com
    ##########################################


    function button($text,$url,$target)
    {
    $buttonpath='makebutton.php';
    if ($target !="") $target=' target="'.$target.'"';
    if ($text=="" || $url=="") return ("No Valid Link");
    $content = '<a href= "'.$url.'"'.$target.' border="0"><img src="'.$buttonpath.'?text='.$text.'" border=0></a>';
    return($content);
    }


    ################################################### Usage...
    # echo button("Test","URL","TARGET");
    ##################################################


    #############################################
    # makebutton.php ############
    #############################################


    <?php
    header("content-type: image/jpeg");
    $text = substr($_REQUEST['text'],0,11);
    $len = strlen($_REQUEST['text']);
    if ($len > 11) $text .="..";$len = $len*8;
    $file ="aqua.jpg";
    $image = @imagecreatefromjpeg($file) or die ("No Image");
    $x = (imagesx($image)/2)-($len/2)-8;$y = 12;
    $black = imagecolorallocate($image,0,0,0);
    imagestring($image,5,$x+2,$y+2,$text,$black);
    imagestring($image,5,$x+1,$y-2,$text,$black);
    imagestring($image,5,$x-1,$y+2,$text,$black);
    imagestring($image,5,$x-2,$y-2,$text,$black);
    imagestring($image,5,$x,$y,$text,$white);
    imagejpeg($image);
    imagedestroy($image);
    ?>

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