Using a dafont font with imagettftext in PHP

If you want to spice up your imagettftext use and use custom fonts from dafont here is how to do it:

Choose your font from dafont in this example I choose Raitons font. Click download on the right of the page

Open up the downloaded zip file and drag the .ttf file into your image create php file directory (note i changed the font name from Raitons Demo.ttf to Raitons.ttf)

image.php is this:

";
ImageDestroy($image);//Free memory
}
echo create_image(600, 200, 'Sample text for image');

This will generate an image with the custom text using the font Raitons. The image file will be called phpimage.png in your working directory that looks like this:

That is how to use custom or dafont fonts with imagettftext as you can see its simple and custom fonts look a lot better than the default ones!