GD and Image Functions
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imagecreatetruecolor

Create a new true color image

Description

GdImagefalse imagecreatetruecolor(int $width, int $height)

imagecreatetruecolor returns an image object representing a black image of the specified size.

Parameters

width

Image width.

height

Image height.

Return Values

Returns an image object on success, false on errors.

Changelog

Version Description
8.0.0 On success, this function returns a GDImage instance now; previously, a resource was returned.

Examples

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

<?php
header ('Content-Type: image/png');
$im = @imagecreatetruecolor(120, 20)
      or die('Cannot Initialize new GD image stream');
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($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:

Output of example : Creating a new GD image stream and outputting an image.

See Also

  • imagedestroy
  • imagecreate