texttoimage with transparent background

Wednesday 21 January 2009 5:32:39 am

After a bit trial & error and inspiration by other template extensions, I solved it this way:

1. Inside the extension directory create following directory structure

texttoimage_ext
texttoimage_ext/autoloads
texttoimage_ext/lib
texttoimage_ext/settings

2. Copy the 2 original files from the link in the posting above into the lib directory
3. In "autoloads", create a file "eztemplateautoload.php" with following content

<?php
// Operator autoloading

$eZTemplateOperatorArray = array();

$eZTemplateOperatorArray[] =
  array( 'script' => 'extension/texttoimage_ext/lib/eztemplateimageoperator_ext.php',
         'class' => 'ezTemplateImageOperatorExt',
         'operator_names' => array( 'texttoimageext' ) );

?>

4. In "settings", create a file "site.ini.append.php" with following content

#?ini charset="iso-8859-1"?
# eZ publish configuration file.

[TemplateSettings]
AutoloadPathList[]=extension/texttoimage_ext/autoloads

5. activate the extension and clear the cache

Now you can use the new operator "texttoimageext" in your templates. I don't really have enough experience to code ezPublish extensions, so there might be more elegant ways, but at least it works for me.

Thursday 16 April 2009 7:17:34 am

Also in case of using special fonts in headings or short text fragments you can use "sIFR" as an alternative (best reason of using sifr is the search engine optimization and accesibility):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Inman_Flash_Replacement

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