imagechar

(PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5)

imagechar -- Draw a character horizontally

Description

bool imagechar ( resource image, int font, int x, int y, string c, int color )

imagechar() draws the first character of c in the image identified by image with its upper-left at x,y (top left is 0, 0) with the color color. If font is 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, a built-in font is used (with higher numbers corresponding to larger fonts).

Example 1. imagechar() example

<?php

$im 
imagecreate(100100);

$string 'PHP';

$bg imagecolorallocate($im255255255);
$black imagecolorallocate($im000);

// prints a black "P" in the top left corner
imagechar($im100$string$black);

header('Content-type: image/png');
imagepng($im);

?>

See also imagecharup() and imageloadfont().