php man page for imagecreate

IMAGECREATE(3)								 1							    IMAGECREATE(3)

imagecreate - Create a new palette based image

SYNOPSIS
       resource imagecreate (int  $width, int  $height)

DESCRIPTION
       imagecreate(3) returns an image identifier representing a blank image of specified size.

	In general, we recommend the use of imagecreatetruecolor(3) instead of imagecreate(3) so that image processing occurs on the highest qual-
       ity image possible. If you want to output a palette image, then imagetruecolortopalette(3) should be called immediately before  saving  the
       image with imagepng(3) or imagegif(3).

PARAMETERS
	      o $width
		- The image width.

	      o $height
		- The image height.

RETURN VALUES
       Returns an image resource identifier on success, FALSE on errors.

EXAMPLES
       Example #1

	       Creating a new GD image stream and outputting an image.

	      <?php
	      header("Content-Type: image/png");
	      $im = @imagecreate(110, 20)
		  or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
	      $background_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
	      $text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 233, 14, 91);
	      imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5,  "A Simple Text String", $text_color);
	      imagepng($im);
	      imagedestroy($im);
	      ?>

	      The  above  example  will  output something similar to:[NOT DISPLAYABLE MEDIA]Output of example : Creating a new GD image stream and
	      outputting an image.

SEE ALSO
       imagedestroy(3), imagecreatetruecolor(3).

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