Using Dynamic Text as background in TD

[tektipsismyfavorite]

I want to put the year in the background of a table cell using either a dynamic gif or CSS. I've seen it done before but not sure how to do it.

I tried:
style="background:url(year_bg.php?year=<?php echo $theyear; ?>); background-position:center; background-repeat:no-repeat;"

and year_bg.php =
<span style="color:#CCCCCC; font-size:48px; font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><?php echo $_GET['year']; ?></span>

but that's not working...

 

[Vragabond]

background: url() will be expecting an image, not just some random outputted html text. In your php script, try to output the year as an actual image, so use GD library to write the number to an image and output that image as a result of the script. This would then be more of a php question, suited more in the forum434.