PixImGen

Pixel graphics library for PHP.

Installation

Add this to your composer.json:

{
	"require": {
		"thekonz/piximgen": "1.0.*@dev"
	}
}

Then run composer install or composer update.

Example app

Wanna try it out? Take a look at the example app.

General usage (salute!)

• Load the composer autoloader.

require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';

• Create a new instance of PixImGen.

$image = new \thekonz\PixImGen();

• Set the settings for the image (the constructor also accepts settings as a parameter). You don't have to set the settings at all, there are default settings.

$image->setSettings([
	'seed' => 'GitHub rocks!'
]);

• Set the header.

header('content-type: image/png');

• Display the image.

echo $image->getImage();

• Look at your image!

If you play around with the settings (especially the saturation settings), you can get some pretty cool images.

Complete list of settings

Setting	Explanation	Default value
seed	Starting value for the random generator. Just like in Minecraft.	System time (time())
blocksize	The width of each block (pixel).	15
width	The amount of blocks on the X-axis of the image.	10
height	The amount of blocks on the Y-axis of the image.	10
minredsaturation	The minimum saturation of the color red.	0
maxredsaturation	The maximum saturation of the color red.	255
mingreensaturation	The minimum saturation of the color green.	0
maxgreensaturation	The maximum saturation of the color green.	255
minbluesaturation	The minimum saturation of the color blue.	0
maxbluesaturation	The maximum saturation of the color blue.	255

Further manipulation of the image

Since the method getImage() returns an Imagick object, you can use all of the Imagick methods.