How to Add Text on Image in Laravel?

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Hello, all! In this article, we will talk about how to add text on image in laravel. If you have a question about add watermark to image in laravel then I will give a simple example with a solution. This post will give you a simple example of laravel add text to image. I’m going to show you about how to add a text on an image laravel.

if you are using laravel and you want to add text on an image or resize it, crop image then we can do with "intervention/image" pakacke.

you have to just follow few step and you can add text on image.

So, let's follow the below steps to generate a thumbnail image in the laravel application.

Step 1: Install Laravel

This is optional; however, if you have not created the laravel app, then you may go ahead and execute the below command:

composer create-project laravel/laravel example-app

Step 2: Install Intervention Image Package

In second step we will install intervention/image for resize image. this package through we can generate thumbnail image for our project. so first fire bellow command in your cmd or terminal:

composer require intervention/image

Step 3: Create Routes

In this step we will add routes and controller file so first add bellow route in your routes.php file.

routes/web.php

<?php
  
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
  
use App\Http\Controllers\ImageController;
  
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/
  
Route::controller(ImageController::class)->group(function(){
    Route::get('image-upload', 'index');
    Route::post('image-upload', 'store')->name('image.store');
});

Step 4: Create Controller File

Now require to create new ImageController for image upload and resize it, so first run bellow command :

php artisan make:controller ImageController

After this command you can find ImageController.php file in your app/Http/Controllers directory. open ImageController.php file and put bellow code in that file.

Make sure, you have created "images" and "thumbnail" folder in public folder.

app/Http/Controllers/ImageController.php

<?php
  
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
  
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Image;
  
class ImageController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Display a listing of the resource.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function index()
    {
        return view('imageUpload');
    }
      
    /**
     * Display a listing of the resource.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function store(Request $request)
    {
        $this->validate($request, [
            'image' => 'required|image|mimes:jpeg,png,jpg,gif,svg|max:2048',
        ]);
    
        if($request->hasFile('image')) {
            $image = Image::make($request->file('image'));
            /**
             * Main Image Upload on Folder Code
             */
            $imageName = time().'-'.$request->file('image')->getClientOriginalName();
            $destinationPath = public_path('images/');
            
            $image->text('This is from ItSolutionStuff.com', 120, 100, function($font) {  
                  $font->size(100);  
                  $font->color('#e1e1e1');  
                  $font->align('center');  
                  $font->valign('bottom');  
                  $font->angle(90);  
            });  
            $image->save($destinationPath.$imageName);
            return back()
                ->with('success','Image Upload successful')
                ->with('imageName',$imageName);
        }
     
        return back();
    }
}

Step 5: View File and Create Upload directory

Ok, in this last step we will create imageUpload.blade.php file for photo upload form and manage error message and also success message. So first create imageUpload.blade.php file and put bellow code:

resources/views/imageUpload.blade.php

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Laravel Resize Image Tutorial - ItSolutionStuff.com</title>
    <link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/5.0.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
    
<div class="container">
    <h1>Laravel Resize Image Tutorial - ItSolutionStuff.com</h1>
    @if (count($errors) > 0)
        <div class="alert alert-danger">
            <strong>Whoops!</strong> There were some problems with your input.<br><br>
            <ul>
                @foreach ($errors->all() as $error)
                    <li>{{ $error }}</li>
                @endforeach
            </ul>
        </div>
    @endif
           
    @if ($message = Session::get('success'))
      
    <div class="alert alert-success alert-dismissible fade show" role="alert">
      <strong>{{ $message }}</strong>
      <button type="button" class="btn-close" data-bs-dismiss="alert" aria-label="Close"></button>
    </div>
  
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-md-4">
            <strong>Original Image:</strong>
            <br/>
            <img src="/images/{{ Session::get('imageName') }}" width="300px" />
        </div>
    </div>
    @endif
            
    <form action="{{ route('image.store') }}" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
        @csrf
        <div class="row">
            <div class="col-md-12">
                <br/>
                <input type="file" name="image" class="image">
            </div>
            <div class="col-md-12">
                <br/>
                <button type="submit" class="btn btn-success">Upload Image</button>
            </div>
        </div>
    </form>
</div>
    
</body>
</html>

Run Laravel App:

All the required steps have been done, now you have to type the given below command and hit enter to run the Laravel app:

php artisan serve

Now, Go to your web browser, type the given URL and view the app output:

http://localhost:8000/image-upload

Output:

I hope it can help you...