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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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