<?php
// create a 100*100 image
$im = imagecreatetruecolor(100, 100);
// Write the text
$textcolor = imagecolorallocate($im, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF);
imagestringup($im, 3, 40, 80, 'gd library', $textcolor);
// Save the image
imagepng($im, './stringup.png');
imagedestroy($im);
?>
The above example will output
something similar to: