imagefontwidth

Get font width

Description

int imagefontwidth(GdFontint $font)

Returns the pixel width of a character in font.

Parameters

font

Can be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 for built-in fonts in latin2 encoding (where higher numbers corresponding to larger fonts) or GdFont instance, returned by imageloadfont.

Return Values

Returns the pixel width of the font.

Changelog

Version Description
8.1.0 The font parameter now accepts both an GdFont instance and an int; previously only int was accepted.

Examples

Example #1 Using imagefontwidth on built-in fonts

<?php
echo 'Font width: ' . imagefontwidth(4);
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

Font width: 8

Example #2 Using imagefontwidth together with imageloadfont

<?php
// Load a .gdf font
$font = imageloadfont('anonymous.gdf');

echo 'Font width: ' . imagefontwidth($font);
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

Font width: 23

See Also

  • imagefontheight
  • imageloadfont