php man page for imagesetstyle

IMAGESETSTYLE(3)							 1							  IMAGESETSTYLE(3)

imagesetstyle - Set the style for line drawing

SYNOPSIS
       bool imagesetstyle (resource  $image, array  $style)

DESCRIPTION
       imagesetstyle(3)  sets  the style to be used by all line drawing functions (such as imageline(3) and imagepolygon(3)) when drawing with the
       special color IMG_COLOR_STYLED or lines of images with color IMG_COLOR_STYLEDBRUSHED.

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

	      o $style
		- An array of pixel colors. You can use the IMG_COLOR_TRANSPARENT constant to add a transparent pixel.

RETURN VALUES
	Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

EXAMPLES
	Following example script draws a dashed line from upper left to lower right corner of the canvas:

       Example #1

	      imagesetstyle(3) example

	      <?php
	      header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
	      $im  = imagecreatetruecolor(100, 100);
	      $w   = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
	      $red = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 0, 0);

	      /* Draw a dashed line, 5 red pixels, 5 white pixels */
	      $style = array($red, $red, $red, $red, $red, $w, $w, $w, $w, $w);
	      imagesetstyle($im, $style);
	      imageline($im, 0, 0, 100, 100, IMG_COLOR_STYLED);

	      /* Draw a line of happy faces using imagesetbrush() with imagesetstyle */
	      $style = array($w, $w, $w, $w, $w, $w, $w, $w, $w, $w, $w, $w, $red);
	      imagesetstyle($im, $style);

	      $brush = imagecreatefrompng("http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/images/smile.happy.png");
	      $w2 = imagecolorallocate($brush, 255, 255, 255);
	      imagecolortransparent($brush, $w2);
	      imagesetbrush($im, $brush);
	      imageline($im, 100, 0, 0, 100, IMG_COLOR_STYLEDBRUSHED);

	      imagejpeg($im);
	      imagedestroy($im);
	      ?>

	      The above example will output something similar to:[NOT DISPLAYABLE MEDIA]Output of example : imagesetstyle()

SEE ALSO
       imagesetbrush(3), imageline(3).

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