Annotate vs label vs caption

[hivens]

I'm a bit stuck with this particular project, and I've been trying to implement some advice I received on this forum earlier today without much luck. I have a script that works but I don't know why I would choose to use caption/label over annotate, and how I would implement that.

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<?php

$text = 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog';
$width = 1000;
$height = 1000;

$textBackground = new ImagickPixel('transparent');
$textColor = new ImagickPixel('#000');

$gradient = new Imagick();
$gradient->newPseudoImage($width, $height, 'gradient:blue-red');

$image = new Imagick();
$image->newImage($width, $height, $textBackground);

$gradient->setImageColorspace($image->getImageColorspace());

$draw = new ImagickDraw();
$draw->setFillColor($textColor);
$draw->setFontSize( 10 );

$image->annotateImage($draw, 10, 45, 0, $text);

$gradient->compositeImage($image, Imagick::COMPOSITE_MATHEMATICS, 0, 0);
$gradient->setImageFormat('png');

header('Content-type: image/png');
echo $gradient;
return;
?>

P.s I'm sorry for a second post, I mucked up posting my first one - perhaps I should I have just edited this on top instead.
P.p.s My version is Version: ImageMagick 6.7.2-7 2016-06-17 Q16

[fmw42]

I think you want

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$gradient->compositeImage($image, Imagick::COMPOSITE_OVER, 0, 0);

but before that you need to set the gravity to center. see

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/imagick.setgravity.php

[hivens]

Ok I will try that, thank you.

[fmw42]

After annotating, you probably want to trim the image to just fit the text before compositing over the background image, so that it centers properly.