imagemerge.php

  function _merge_photo($original_image)
	{
		//test(FCPATH.'assets/loop/img/frame.png',1);
		# If you don't know the type of image you are using as your originals.
		$image = imagecreatefromstring(file_get_contents(FCPATH.'loop_upload/'.$original_image['file_name']));
		$frame = imagecreatefrompng(FCPATH.'assets/loop/img/frame.png');

		# If you know your originals are of type PNG.
		//$image = imagecreatefrompng($original_image);
		//$frame = imagecreatefrompng($frame_image);

		imagesavealpha($frame, true);
		imagealphablending($frame, true); 
		//imagecopymerge($image, $frame, 0, 0, 0, 0, 758, 512, 100);
		imagecopyresampled($image, $frame, 0, 0, 0, 0, 758, 512,758, 512);

		# Save the image to a file
		$dt = getdate();
		imagepng($image, FCPATH.'loop_upload/gallery/'.$dt[0].'.png');

		# Output straight to the browser.
		//header('Content-Type: image/png');
		//imagepng($image);	
		return $dt[0].'.png';
	}