PHP imageellipse function

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imageellipse

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5)

Draws an ellipse centered at the specified coordinates.

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

x-coordinate of the center

y-coordinate of the center

The ellipse width

The ellipse height

The color of the ellipse. A color identifier created with
imagecolorallocate()

Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

Example 1. imageellipse() example

 
// create a blank image
$image = imagecreatetruecolor(400, 300);
 
// fill the background color
$bg = imagecolorallocate($image, 0, 0, 0);
 
// choose a color for the ellipse
$col_ellipse = imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 255, 255);
 
// draw the ellipse
imageellipse($image, 200, 150, 300, 200, $col_ellipse);
 
// output the picture
header("Content-type: image/png");
imagepng($image);

The above example will output
something similar to:

Note:
This function requires GD 2.0.2 or later.