php man page for imagedestroy

IMAGEDESTROY(3) 							 1							   IMAGEDESTROY(3)

imagedestroy - Destroy an image

SYNOPSIS
       bool imagedestroy (resource  $image)

DESCRIPTION
       imagedestroy(3) frees any memory associated with image $image.

PARAMETERS
	      o $
		image -An image resource, returned by one of the image creation functions, such as imagecreatetruecolor(3).

RETURN VALUES
	Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

EXAMPLES
       Example #1

	      Using imagedestroy(3) example

	      <?php
	      // create a 100 x 100 image
	      $im = imagecreatetruecolor(100, 100);

	      // alter or save the image

	      // frees image from memory
	      imagedestroy($im);
	      ?>

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