Hello. I’m in a bit of a pickle right now. I’m currently using an Ubuntu Linux distribution. I’m trying to make a captcha system, but the image keeps on returning blank. I looked into the error logs of my web server, and the error logs say, “PHP message: PHP warning: imagettftext( ): Could not find/open don’t in (not comfortable sharing directory) on line 23”. Here is part of my code:

$dir = ‘Computer/usr/share/fonts/truetype/28DaysLater.ttf’ ;
imagettftext($image, {number}, {number}, {number}, {number}, $color, $dir, $_SESSION[‘captcha_code’]) ;

By the way, the {number} parts are parts that I feel somewhat insecure sharing and are also parts that I think are unimportant. I don’t think that there are any other bits of my code that are important to know, although please let me know if there’s any specific information or code that I can provide you. Anyway, I don’t know why I keep on getting this error and an empty captcha. Can somebody please give me some advice on how to solve this problem, like any downloads to make or any typing mistakes I may have made?
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Anonymous wrote:

> Hello. I’m in a bit of a pickle right now. I’m currently using an Ubuntu Linux distribution. I’m trying to make a captcha system, but the image keeps on returning blank. I looked into the error logs of my web server, and the error logs say, “PHP message: PHP warning: imagettftext( ): Could not find/open don’t in (not comfortable sharing directory) on line 23”. Here is part of my code:

Simple question in case you may be overlooking something obvious. The error says can't find "don't" in a particular directory. Is "don't" really a file name you want? Is the directory it's looking in correct? Does what you want it to find exist in that directory? Does you web server 'user' have read access to that directory?

> $dir = ‘Computer/usr/share/fonts/truetype/28DaysLater.ttf’ ;
> imagettftext($image, {number}, {number}, {number}, {number}, $color, $dir, $_SESSION[‘captcha_code’]) ;

Does $dir need a leading slash '/'?

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Anonymous wrote:

> Anonymous wrote:

>> Hello. I’m in a bit of a pickle right now. I’m currently using an Ubuntu Linux distribution. I’m trying to make a captcha system, but the image keeps on returning blank. I looked into the error logs of my web server, and the error logs say, “PHP message: PHP warning: imagettftext( ): Could not find/open don’t in (not comfortable sharing directory) on line 23”. Here is part of my code:

> Simple question in case you may be overlooking something obvious. The error says can't find "don't" in a particular directory. Is "don't" really a file name you want? Is the directory it's looking in correct? Does what you want it to find exist in that directory? Does you web server 'user' have read access to that directory?

>> $dir = ‘Computer/usr/share/fonts/truetype/28DaysLater.ttf’ ;
>> imagettftext($image, {number}, {number}, {number}, {number}, $color, $dir, $_SESSION[‘captcha_code’]) ;

> Does $dir need a leading slash '/'?

Also, $dir is not a dir, it's a file (28DaysLater.ttf). Is that meant to be the full filename with path, or really a dir?

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AH! Sorry. I didn’t actually mean to write “don’t”, but really “font”. Please ignore that clumsy mistake.
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Anonymous wrote:

> Hello. I’m in a bit of a pickle right now. I’m currently using an Ubuntu Linux distribution. I’m trying to make a captcha system, but the image keeps on returning blank. I looked into the error logs of my web server, and the error logs say, “PHP message: PHP warning: imagettftext( ): Could not find/open don’t in (not comfortable sharing directory) on line 23”. Here is part of my code:

> $dir = ‘Computer/usr/share/fonts/truetype/28DaysLater.ttf’ ;
> imagettftext($image, {number}, {number}, {number}, {number}, $color, $dir, $_SESSION[‘captcha_code’]) ;

Is $dir relative to where you are running the script? Are you sure 28DaysLater.ttf is accessible using the exact path you're passing to $dir?

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Seems like you need to give the path of the font a leading /, like this:
$dir = ‘/Computer/usr/share/fonts/truetype/28DaysLater.ttf’ ;

Look here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10366679/warning-imagettftext-function-imagettftext-could-not-find-open-font-in-ho#10366726
and here:
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imagettftext.php

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Solved! Apparently, I was using the wrong path the entire time...
Thank you for trying to help me with the problem, as I got the answer from a post here.
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Good you could get it solved, and thanks for updating on the final solution.

cheers

trw

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and don't forget to advertise your sites address here, once you have it done :-)

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