Generating Images using PHP

Abstract

In contemporary society, PHP is one of the most popular general-purpose programming languages and widely used by programmer in our daily life. PHP contains an important database called GD library. GD library generates many kinds of images like charts, graphics, thumbnails and most anything else. Programmer usually uses the software of Apache, MySQL in combination with PHP language to build the programming environment. So the connection between Apache, MySQL and PHP language is very important. After the connection is built, the data in the later programme can be saved in MySQL. In this thesis, I built a basketball MVP voting system. At first, I provided a voting page. After voting for one of the player, the result is shown by every basketball player’s voting number, the percentage and the change of length of the bar chart.