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<?php

function convert_text_image($text_input)
{
$my_img = imagecreate( 290, 18 );
$background = imagecolorallocate( $my_img, 255, 255, 255 );
$text_colour = imagecolorallocate( $my_img, 0, 0, 0 );
imagestring( $my_img, 4, 0, 0, $text_input,$text_colour );
ob_start(); // This prevents the imagegif function from outputting to the browser.
imagegif($my_img);
$img_out = ob_get_contents(); // This gets the raw data of the image.
ob_end_clean(); // Clear all output till now
 $img_out = chunk_split(base64_encode($img_out)); // Encodes the data so that we can display this as a raw image on the browser.
$string = "\"data: image/gif;base64,".$img_out."\"";
echo "<img src=$string />";
 imagedestroy( $my_img ); //Free resources.
}


$text = "example@example.com";
convert_text_image($text);

?>