Instructions for Setting Up A Dynamic Dummy Image Generator on your own Server - http://dummyimage.com What are the requirements? You need to have a server than can run PHP code supports the GD library. Since PHP 4.3 this has been bundled in. For more info go to http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php What do I do? Upload code.php, arial.ttf, and the included .htaccess file to a directory on your server. If you can't pass the image dimensions from the URL (I.e. http://yourserver.com/yourdir/123x345 doesn't show you an image) then look at the .htaccess file. You can always pass the image dimension variables to the script by doing http://yourserver.com/yourdir/code.php?x=123x345 Sample .htaccess file If you can't see a .htaccess file (Windows hides it by default) here is what you can do. 1. Create a new txt document on your local machine. Call it htaccess.txt 2. Copy the following into it, save it, and upload it to your server. RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ code.php?x=$1 [L] 3. On the server, rename it to .htaccess Credit Code written by Russell Heimlich - http://www.russellheimlich.com/blog Contact: http://www.russellheimlich.com/contaact Some code was written by Ruquay K Calloway http://ruquay.com/sandbox/imagettf/ to detect the text bounding box better (see comments in the PHP code.)