In Conclusion - PHP

Picking up where we left off in part one, we will work on some more helper methods and our conversion method. By the time we are done, we will have a fully functional image to text converter.

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By: Brian Vaughn

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December 21, 2005

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That's it. We now have a working conversion library - but we still haven't seen how it works! Let's try it out by converting a familiar graphic. Go ahead and create a file - (you can name it anything you like, so long as it has a .php extension) - and put in it the following code:

<html>
<head>
<title>IMG_TO_TXT</title>
<style type="text/css">
strong, b {
 color: #FFFFFF;
 font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
 font-size: 11px;
}
</style>
</head>

<?php
include_once 'img_to_txt.php';
$img_to_txt = new img_to_txt();
$img_to_txt->set_chars( 'MYNAMEISBRIAN' );
?>

Color: 
<?php
$img_to_txt->load_image( 'http://www.google.com/intl/en/images/logo.gif' );
echo $img_to_txt->get_image();
?>

Grayscale: 
<?php
$img_to_txt->set_return_format( 'grayscale' );
echo $img_to_txt->get_image();
?>

Matrix: 
<?php
$img_to_txt->set_return_format( 'matrix' );
echo $img_to_txt->get_image();
?>

Monochrome: 
<?php
$img_to_txt->set_return_format( 'monochrome' );
echo $img_to_txt->get_image();
?>

</body>
</html>

The above demonstration converts the familiar Google image into several text-only modes. You may view this example online here:

http://images.devshed.com/ds/stories/Image_is_Words/IMG_TO_TXT.htm

If you have not followed along but would still like to download the source code, it may be found online here:

http://images.devshed.com/ds/stories/Image_is_Words/img_to_txt.zip

I hope this has been a useful exercise for any of you who have taken the time to complete it. Thank you for your time, and please let me know if you have any questions/comments. Until next time...