Programming text into images based on its url? Is this possible?
 

I want to display custom txt in an image based on the url. Example. www.mywebsite.com/image.php?txt1=hello&txt2=john

I need this image to be able to be hotlinked from an external site. Any one know any scripts?

I need to hotlink it from ebay, not sure if they will let me hotlink a .php image, if not is it possible to make it a .jpg extension?

setup a virtual host in a directory on your domain and set php to parse .jpg as .php

You can set up a .htaccess file which will rewrite image_hello_john.jpg to image.php?txt1=hello&txt2=john :

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^image_([^/]+)_([^/]+).jpg?$ /image.php?txt1=$1&txt2=$2 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

Not tested, but should be working. To write a text overlaying an image you can use the gd-libary which is usually part of the php installation, see the manual at http://www.php.net/gd