imagestring

(PHP 3, PHP 4 )

imagestring -- Draw a string horizontally

Description

int imagestring ( resource image, int font, int x, int y, string s, int col)

imagestring() draws the string s in the image identified by image at coordinates x, y (top left is 0, 0) in color col. If font is 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, a built-in font is used.

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/jpg");
  imagejpeg($im);
?>

See also imageloadfont().