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(100, 100);
  $string = 'PHP';
  $bg = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255); $black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
  // prints a black "P" in the top left corner imagechar($im, 1, 0, 0, $string, $black);
  header('Content-type: image/png'); imagepng($im);
  ?>
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    See also imagecharup() and
    imageloadfont().