PHP imagechar function

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imagechar

(PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5)

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.

An image resource, returned by one of the image creation functions,
such as imagecreatetruecolor().

Can be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 for built-in
fonts (where higher numbers corresponding to larger fonts) or any of your
own font identifiers registered with imageloadfont().

x-coordinate of the start

y-coordinate of the start

The character to draw

A color identifier created with
imagecolorallocate()

Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

Example 1. imagechar() example

 
$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: