PHP imagecreate function

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imagecreate

(PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5)

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

We recommend the use of imagecreatetruecolor().

The image width

The image height

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

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

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: