IMAGESTRING(3) 1 IMAGESTRING(3)
imagestring - Draw a string horizontally
SYNOPSIS
bool imagestring (resource $image, int $font, int $x, int $y, string $string, int $color)
DESCRIPTION
Draws a $string at the given coordinates.
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 upper left corner.
o $y
- y-coordinate of the upper left corner.
o $string
- The string to be written.
o $color
- A color identifier created with imagecolorallocate(3).
RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
imagestring(3) example
<?php
// Create a 100*30 image
$im = imagecreate(100, 30);
// White background and blue text
$bg = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$textcolor = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 255);
// Write the string at the top left
imagestring($im, 5, 0, 0, 'Hello world!', $textcolor);
// Output the image
header('Content-type: image/png');
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>
The above example will output something similar to:[NOT DISPLAYABLE MEDIA]Output of example : imagestring()
SEE ALSO
imageloadfont(3), imagettftext(3).
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