imagechar
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
imagechar — Draw a character horizontally
Description
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
- image
-
An image resource, returned by one of the image creation functions, such as imagecreatetruecolor().
- 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().
- x
-
x-coordinate of the start.
- y
-
y-coordinate of the start.
- c
-
The character to draw.
- 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:
