imagecreatefrompng

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

imagecreatefrompng — Create a new image from file or URL

Description

resource imagecreatefrompng ( string $filename )

imagecreatefrompng() returns an image identifier representing the image obtained from the given filename.

imagecreatefrompng() returns an empty string on failure. It also outputs an error message, which unfortunately displays as a broken link in a browser. To ease debugging the following example will produce an error PNG:

Example#1 Example to handle an error during creation


<?php
function LoadPNG($imgname)
{
    $im = @imagecreatefrompng($imgname); /* Attempt to open */
    if (!$im) { /* See if it failed */
        $im  = imagecreatetruecolor(150, 30); /* Create a blank image */
        $bgc = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
        $tc  = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
        imagefilledrectangle($im, 0, 0, 150, 30, $bgc);
        /* Output an errmsg */
        imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5, "Error loading $imgname", $tc);
    }
    return $im;
}
header("Content-Type: image/png");
$img = LoadPNG("bogus.image");
imagepng($img);
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

Tip

You can use a URL as a filename with this function if the fopen wrappers have been enabled. See fopen() for more details on how to specify the filename and List of Supported Protocols/Wrappers for a list of supported URL protocols.

Parameters

filename: Path to the PNG image

Return Values

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

Notes

Warning

Windows versions of PHP prior to PHP 4.3.0 do not support accessing remote files via this function, even if allow_url_fopen is enabled.