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IMAGECHAR(3)								 1							      IMAGECHAR(3)

imagechar - Draw a character horizontally

SYNOPSIS
       bool imagechar (resource  $image, int  $font, int  $x, int  $y, string  $c, int	$color)

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

	      o $
		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(3).

	      o $x
		- x-coordinate of the start.

	      o $y
		- y-coordinate of the start.

	      o $c
		- The character to draw.

	      o $color
		- A color identifier created with imagecolorallocate(3).

RETURN VALUES
	Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

EXAMPLES
       Example #1

	      imagechar(3) 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:[NOT DISPLAYABLE MEDIA]Output of example : imagechar()

SEE ALSO
       imagecharup(3), imageloadfont(3).

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