GD and Image Functions
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imagestring

Draw a string horizontally

Description

true imagestring(
    GdImage $image,
    GdFontint $font,
    int $x,
    int $y,
    string $string,
    int $color
)

Draws a string at the given coordinates.

Parameters

image

A GdImage object, returned by one of the image creation functions, such as imagecreatetruecolor.

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.

x

x-coordinate of the upper left corner.

y

y-coordinate of the upper left corner.

string

The string to be written.

color

A color identifier created with imagecolorallocate.

Return Values

Always returns true.

Changelog

Version Description
8.1.0 The font parameter now accepts both an GdFont instance and an int; previously only int was accepted.
8.0.0 image expects a GdImage instance now; previously, a valid gd resource was expected.

Examples

Example #1 imagestring example

<?php
// Create a 100*30 image
$im = imagecreate(100, 30);

// White background and blue text
$bg = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$textcolor = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 255);

// Write the string at the top left
imagestring($im, 5, 0, 0, 'Hello world!', $textcolor);

// Output the image
header('Content-type: image/png');

imagepng($im);
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

Output of example : imagestring()

See Also

  • imagestringup
  • imageloadfont
  • imagettftext