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andrewgjohnson/imagettftextblur
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imagettftextblur is a drop in replacement for imagettftext with added parameters to add blur, glow and shadow effects to your PHP GD images

v1.2.21(3y ago)27198.4k↓18.2%11[2 issues](https://github.com/andrewgjohnson/imagettftextblur/issues)1MITPHPPHP >=5.0.0

Since Nov 25Pushed 1y ago3 watchersCompare

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imagettftextblur
================

[](#imagettftextblur)

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Description
-----------

[](#description)

**imagettftextblur** is a drop in replacement for imagettftext with added parameters to add blur, glow and shadow effects to your PHP GD images.

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**imagettftextblur** is an [agjgd](https://agjgd.org) project.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### With Composer

[](#with-composer)

This project offers support for the [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/) dependency manager. You can find the imagettftextblur package online on [packagist.org](https://packagist.org/packages/andrewgjohnson/imagettftextblur).

#### Install using Composer

[](#install-using-composer)

Either run this command:

```
composer require andrewgjohnson/imagettftextblur

```

or add this to the `require` section of your composer.json file:

```
"andrewgjohnson/imagettftextblur": "1.*"

```

### Without Composer

[](#without-composer)

To use without Composer add an [include](http://php.net/manual/function.include.php) to the [`imagettftextblur.php` source file](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andrewgjohnson/imagettftextblur/master/source/imagettftextblur.php).

```
include_once 'source/imagettftextblur.php';

```

Examples
--------

[](#examples)

```
// standard method to add text to a GD image
imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 0, 0, $color, $font, $string);

// this will work the exact same as the line above
imagettftextblur($im, 20, 0, 0, 0, $color, $font, $string);

// method to add blurred text to a GD image
imagettftextblur($im, 20, 0, 0, 0, $color, $font, $string, 1);

```

There are [other examples](https://github.com/andrewgjohnson/imagettftextblur/tree/master/examples) included in the GitHub repository and on [imagettftextblur.agjgd.org](https://imagettftextblur.agjgd.org/examples/).

Help Requests
-------------

[](#help-requests)

Please post any questions in the [discussions area](https://github.com/andrewgjohnson/imagettftextblur/discussions) on GitHub if you need help.

If you discover a bug please [enter an issue](https://github.com/andrewgjohnson/imagettftextblur/issues/new) on GitHub. When submitting an issue please use our [issue template](https://github.com/andrewgjohnson/imagettftextblur/blob/master/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md).

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

Please read our [contributing guidelines](https://github.com/andrewgjohnson/imagettftextblur/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) if you want to contribute.

You can contribute financially by becoming a [patron](https://patreon.com/agjopensource) at [patreon.com/agjopensource](https://patreon.com/agjopensource) to support imagettftextblur and [other agjgd.org projects](https://agjgd.org/projects/).

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Acknowledgements
----------------

[](#acknowledgements)

This project was started by [Andrew G. Johnson (@andrewgjohnson)](https://github.com/andrewgjohnson).

Full list of contributors:

- [Andrew G. Johnson (@andrewgjohnson)](https://github.com/andrewgjohnson)
- [Philip van Heemstra (@vHeemstra)](https://github.com/vHeemstra)
- [Imgbot (@ImgBotApp)](https://github.com/ImgBotApp)

Our [security policies and procedures](https://github.com/andrewgjohnson/imagettftextblur/blob/master/.github/SECURITY.md) comes via the [atomist/samples](https://github.com/atomist/samples/blob/master/SECURITY.md) project. Our [issue templates](https://github.com/andrewgjohnson/imagettftextblur/tree/master/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE) comes via the [tensorflow/tensorflow](https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/SECURITY.md) project. Our [pull request template](https://github.com/andrewgjohnson/imagettftextblur/blob/master/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md) comes via the [stevemao/github-issue-templates](https://github.com/stevemao/github-issue-templates) project. The [mountains photo](https://unsplash.com/photos/qJvpykJ5SKs) comes via [Gabriel Garcia Marengo](https://unsplash.com/@gabrielgm).

Changelog
---------

[](#changelog)

You can find all notable changes in the [changelog](https://github.com/andrewgjohnson/imagettftextblur/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md).

###  Health Score

43

—

FairBetter than 91% of packages

Maintenance26

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity46

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community18

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity67

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 98.8% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~121 days

Recently: every ~1 days

Total

19

Last Release

1273d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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