(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
imagechar — Draw a character horizontally
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
.
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().
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 valid gd resource was expected. |
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: