image ontop of an image in php

Question

Here is a link to the page http://www.true-gamerz.net/test2.php

if you look at the image, The rank image is transpent but it dose not show it on the screen dose anyone know why this is happen?

Here is the code

 <?  

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

 $watermark = imagecreatefrompng('images/ranks/ranks_18.png');  
 $watermark_width = imagesx($watermark);  
 $watermark_height = imagesy($watermark);  
 $image = imagecreatetruecolor($watermark_width, $watermark_height);  
 $image = imagecreatefrompng("images/card/test.png");  
 $size = getimagesize("images/card/test.png");  
 $dest_x = $watermark_width;  
 $dest_y = $watermark_height;  
 imagecopymerge($image, $watermark, 289, 4, 0, 0, $watermark_width, $watermark_height, 100);  
 imagepng($image);  

 imagedestroy($image);  
 imagedestroy($watermark);  
 ?>

Answer 1

imagecopymerge does not support alpha channel

Read this for workaround:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imagecopymerge.php#92787