imagechar
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
imagechar — Draw a character horizontally
Description
imagechar() draws the first character of
char in the image identified by
image with its upper-left at
x,y (top left is 0,
0) with the color color.
Parameters
-
image -
A GdImage object, 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 GdFont instance, returned by imageloadfont().
-
x -
x-coordinate of the start.
-
y -
y-coordinate of the start.
-
char -
The character to draw.
-
color -
A color identifier created with imagecolorallocate().
Return Values
Returns true on success or false on failure.
Changelog
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 8.1.0 |
The font parameter now accepts both an GdFont instance
and an int; previously only int was accepted.
|
| 8.0.0 |
image expects a GdImage
instance now; previously, a resource was expected.
|
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
