(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
imagechar — Draw a character horizontally
$image
, int $font
, int $x
, int $y
, string $c
, int $color
)
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.
imageAn image resource, returned by one of the image creation functions, such as imagecreatetruecolor().
fontCan 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().
xx-coordinate of the start.
yy-coordinate of the start.
cThe character to draw.
colorA color identifier created with imagecolorallocate().
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.
Example #1 imagechar() example
<?php
$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: