Example: With Blur

example_with-blur.php

<?php

/**
 * Imagettftextblur Example (With Blur)
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2013-2022 Andrew G. Johnson <andrew@andrewgjohnson.com>
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 *
 * PHP version 5
 *
 * @category  Andrewgjohnson
 * @package   Imagettftextblur
 * @author    Andrew G. Johnson <andrew@andrewgjohnson.com>
 * @copyright 2013-2022 Andrew G. Johnson <andrew@andrewgjohnson.com>
 * @license   https://opensource.org/licenses/mit/ The MIT License
 * @link      https://github.com/andrewgjohnson/imagettftextblur
 */

// include the imagettftextblur source if you're not using Composer
if (file_exists('../source/imagettftextblur.php')) {
    include_once '../source/imagettftextblur.php';
} else {
    die('imagettftextblur.php not found');
}

// set the parameters for our image
$width            = 600;
$height           = 300;
$size             = 20;
$font             = __DIR__ . '/arial.ttf';
$string           = 'This is an example that is blurry';

// calculate the text size in advance
$text_dimensions  = imagettfbbox($size, 0, $font, $string);

// calculate the text's edges
$text_left        = min($text_dimensions[0], $text_dimensions[6]);
$text_right       = max($text_dimensions[2], $text_dimensions[4]);
$text_top         = min($text_dimensions[1], $text_dimensions[3]);
$text_bottom      = max($text_dimensions[5], $text_dimensions[7]);

// calculate the text's position
$x_offset         = ($width / 2)  - (($text_right - $text_left) / 2);
$y_offset         = ($height / 2) - (($text_bottom - $text_top) / 2);

// create our image
$im               = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);

// set our image's colors
$background_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 0xEE, 0xEE, 0xEE);
$text_color       = imagecolorallocate($im, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00);

// fill our image with the background color
imagefill($im, 0, 0, $background_color);

// place the blurred text onto our image
imagettftextblur(
    $im,
    $size,
    0,
    $x_offset,
    $y_offset,
    $text_color,
    $font,
    $string,
    10
);

// display our image and destroy the GD resource
header('Content-Type: image/png');
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);

Expected Output

example_with-blur.png