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imagecreate

imagecreate

(PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5)

imagecreate -- Create a new palette based image

Description

resource imagecreate ( int width, int height )

imagecreate() returns an image identifier representing a blank image of specified size.

We recommend the use of imagecreatetruecolor().

Parameters

width

The image width

height

The image height

Return Values

Returns an image resource identifier on success, FALSE on errors.

Examples

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

<?php
header("Content-type: image/png");
$im = @imagecreate(110, 20)
    or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
$background_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($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:

See Also

imagedestroy()
imagecreatetruecolor()