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+1  Q: 

Text on a picture, but like this one. How ?

I've made a pure PHP script that uses GD library to put text on an image, text entered from a HTML form. The problem is that i can't give the user the possibility to position the text properly.

I've found this good example http://lolkot.ru/lolmixer/#1369, it allows users to play with the text very easily with the mouse !

How is this possible ? What technologies are used for this ?

+2  A: 

JavaScript yui (for drag and drop of the texts), jQuery (for events and AJAX), server side generation of transparent png-s (containing texts)

Kamil Szot  2010-07-21 00:47:07
You can also use most any JavaScript library that supports draggable elements. jQuery, Scriptaculous, etc
Marco Ceppi  2010-07-21 01:14:34
Or you can write your own drag Javascript code...
deceze  2010-07-21 01:21:38
... if you're insane. [Someone else already did the hard work](http://jqueryui.com/demos/draggable/), after all.
Charles  2010-07-21 01:44:32
Sure, I just wanted to highlight that you don't need a library to do this, as everybody is too quick to recommend jQuery et al. And it's really not all that complicated if you know what you're doing. :)
deceze  2010-07-21 01:51:21
I think recommending jQuery is never too quick. I think that jQuery is the best thing that happened to JavaScript ever. Every time when I write some jQuery code I am amazed how easy this is and thankful of how much of my work is saved.
Kamil Szot  2010-07-21 06:45:21

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