imagestring
imagestring
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
imagestring — Draw a string horizontally
Description
bool imagestring ( resource $image , int $font , int $x , int $y , string $string , int $color )
Draws a string at the given coordinates.
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 upper left corner.
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y -
y-coordinate of the upper left corner.
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string -
The string to be written.
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color -
A color identifier created with imagecolorallocate().
Return Values
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.
Examples
Example #1 imagestring() 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:
See Also
- imageloadfont() - Load a new font
- imagettftext() - Write text to the image using TrueType fonts
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