Hi.
Try the backticks (execution) operator instead so you're not fighting
yourself with quotes. I think it should work but this is untested. Let me
know if it doesn't..
$out = `convert picture.jpg -font Arial-Bold -pointsize 20 -fill
red -gravity southeast -draw "text 10,10 'my text to add to picture'"
text-overlay.jpg`;
-Kevin
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From: "Kurtis Harper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 5:35 PM
Subject: [PHP] Help, Parse error caused by quotes andapostrophes in
function, How do I fix this?
> The following is the format needed in order to run the convert command
from
> command line, but I have a problem in exec() format:
>
>
>
> convert picture.jpg -font Arial-Bold -pointsize 20 -fill red -gravity
> southeast -draw "text 10,10 'my text to add to picture'" text-overlay.jpg
>
>
>
>
> this causes problems "Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING":
>
>
>
> exec('convert picture.jpg -font Arial-Bold -pointsize 20 -fill
red -gravity
> southeast -draw "text 10,10 'my text to add to picture'"
text-overlay.jpg');
>
>
>
> I am positive the it is due to all the "s and 's within the command, I
have
> tried the specialchars for quotes andapostrophes but I am still missing
> something:
>
>
>
> exec('convert picture.jpg -font Arial-Bold -pointsize 20 -fill
red -gravity
> southeast -draw "text 10,10 \'my text to add to picture\'"
> text-overlay.jpg');
>
>
>
> If anyone has any ides on how to avoid probles with quotes andapostrophes
> inside the exec() I am all ears :o)
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> Thanks
>
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