Finding out fontpath in PHP

Zom · 6 Sep 2006 at 13:07

Hi guys,

Is there any way of finding out the truetype fontpath in PHP?

Thanks

Dj_Jestar · 6 Sep 2006 at 17:13

Nope, not a native to php thing anyway.

You should know what your own 'font path' is anyway. The OS may have an env var for it, thus you could shell_exec('echo $FONT_PATH'); where $FONT_PATH is replaced for the actual env var, but other than that you'll need to hard-wire it into your code.

probedb · 8 Sep 2006 at 10:25

Dj_Jestar said:
Nope, not a native to php thing anyway.

You should know what your own 'font path' is anyway. The OS may have an env var for it, thus you could shell_exec('echo $FONT_PATH'); where $FONT_PATH is replaced for the actual env var, but other than that you'll need to hard-wire it into your code.

That would also be the font path on the server since that's where its running.

Just do a phpinfo(); to find out what variables are available to PHP by default on your host

robmiller · 8 Sep 2006 at 11:08

Dj_Jestar said:
Nope, not a native to php thing anyway.

You should know what your own 'font path' is anyway. The OS may have an env var for it, thus you could shell_exec('echo $FONT_PATH'); where $FONT_PATH is replaced for the actual env var, but other than that you'll need to hard-wire it into your code.

PHP:

<?php

var_dump( getenv('GDFONTPATH') );

?>

Dj_Jestar · 8 Sep 2006 at 11:16

is that the same as (on windows for ex.) c:\windows\fonts?

EDIT: tested... bool(false) here (gd is loaded)