PHP: Draw a character horizontally

Description

bool imagechar ( resource $image , int $font , int $x , int $y , string $c , int $color )

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:

imagechar

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