imagechar
imagechar
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
imagechar — Draw a character horizontally
Description
bool imagechar ( resource $image , int $font , int $x , int $y , string $c , int $color )
imagechar() draws the first character of c in the image identified by image with its upper-left at x,y (top left is 0, 0) with the color color.
Parameters
`image`
An image resource, returned by one of the image creation functions, such as imagecreatetruecolor().
`font`
Can be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 for built-in fonts in latin2 encoding (where higher numbers corresponding to larger fonts) or any of your own font identifiers registered with imageloadfont().
x
x-coordinate of the start.
y
y-coordinate of the start.
c
The character to draw.
color
A color identifier created with imagecolorallocate().
Return Values
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.
Examples
Example #1 imagechar() example
<?php
$im = imagecreate(100, 100
$string = 'PHP';
$bg = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255
$black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0
// prints a black "P" in the top left corner
imagechar($im, 1, 0, 0, $string, $black
header('Content-type: image/png'
imagepng($im
?>
The above example will output something similar to:
See Also
- imagecharup() - Draw a character vertically
- imageloadfont() - Load a new font
← imagebmp
imagecharup →
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