imagestring
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
imagestring — Draw a string horizontally
Description
bool imagestring
( resource $image
, int $font
, int $x
, int $y
, string $string
, int $color
)
Draws a string at the given coordinates.
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 upper left corner
- y
-
y-coordinate of the upper left corner
- string
-
The string to be written
- color
-
A color identifier created with imagecolorallocate()
Return Values
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.
Examples
Example#1 imagestring() example
<?php
// create a 100*30 image
$im = imagecreate(100, 30);
// white background and blue text
$bg = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$textcolor = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 255);
// write the string at the top left
imagestring($im, 5, 0, 0, "Hello world!", $textcolor);
// output the image
header("Content-type: image/png");
imagepng($im);
?>
The above example will output something similar to:
