Faded Text

I actually converted an old JavaScript function to this PHP. I made a chat page and wanted a way to enhance the chat a bit. Then I remembered back in the AOL 4.0 days, we used to make chat faders. I couldn't find a PHP snippet that did such a task, so i set out to make one. This will convert your text's color. The string will start off as red, and fade to green (or what ever colors you want! View Demo

<? //simple to use!
// echo fadeText('ff0000','0000ff','this is the text that will be faded!'); function getColor($startc, $endc, $percentc)
{ $r1=hexdec(substr($startc,-6,2)); $g1=hexdec(substr($startc,-4,2)); $b1=hexdec(substr($startc,-2,2));
$r2=hexdec(substr($endc,-6,2)); $g2=hexdec(substr($endc,-4,2)); $b2=hexdec(substr($endc,-2,2));
$pcc = $percentc/100;
$rcc= ($r1+($pcc*($r2-$r1)))*1; $gcc= ($g1+($pcc*($g2-$g1)))*1; $bcc= ($b1+($pcc*($b2-$b1)))*1; $frc= dechex($rcc);  $fgc= dechex($gcc);  $fbc= dechex($bcc);

if (strlen($frc)=="1"){ $frc="0".$frc;
}
if (strlen($fgc)=="1"){ $fgc="0".$fgc;
}
if (strlen($fbc)=="1"){ $fbc="0".$fbc;
} $dasclr="#".$frc."".$fgc."".$fbc;
return $dasclr;
}

function fadeText($start, $end, $msg)
{ $myString2Fade = $msg; $endResult=""; $daslen=strlen($myString2Fade);
for ($i=0 ; $i<=$daslen ; $i++){ $perc=(100/$daslen)*$i;
if ($myString2Fade[$i]==" "){ $endResult="$endResult ";
} else { $endResult="$endResult<font color='".getColor($start, $end, $perc)."'>".$myString2Fade[$i]."</font>";
}
}
return $endResult;
} ?>