imagecreatetruecolor

    (PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

    imagecreatetruecolor — Create a new true color image

    Description

    imagecreatetruecolor(int$width, int$height): GdImage|false

    imagecreatetruecolor() returns an image object representing a black image of the specified size.

    Parameters

    width

    Image width.

    height

    Image height.

    Return Values

    Returns an image object on success, false on errors.

    Changelog

    VersionDescription
    8.0.0 On success, this function returns a GDImage instance now; previously, a resource was returned.

    Examples

    Example #1 Creating a new GD image stream and outputting an image.

    <?php
    header     ('Content-Type: image/png');
    $im = @imagecreatetruecolor(120, 20)
    or die(    'Cannot Initialize new GD image stream');
    $text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 233, 14, 91);
    imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5, 'A Simple Text String', $text_color);
    imagepng($im);
    imagedestroy($im);
    ?>

    The above example will output something similar to:

    Output of example : Creating a new GD image stream and outputting an image.

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