imagechar
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
imagechar — Draw a character horizontally
Description
imagechar ( resource $image , int $font , int $x , int $y , string $c , int $color ) : bool
imagechar() 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
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image -
An image resource, returned by one of the image creation functions, such as imagecreatetruecolor().
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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().
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x -
x-coordinate of the start.
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y -
y-coordinate of the start.
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c -
The character to draw.
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color -
A color identifier created with imagecolorallocate().
Return Values
Returns true on success or false on failure.
Examples
Example #1 imagechar() 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:
See Also
- imagecharup() - Draw a character vertically
- imageloadfont() - Load a new font
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