imagecolorallocatealpha

(PHP 4 >= 4.3.2, PHP 5)

imagecolorallocatealpha -- Allocate a color for an image

Description

int imagecolorallocatealpha ( resource image, int red, int green, int blue, int alpha )

imagecolorallocatealpha() behaves identically to imagecolorallocate() with the addition of the transparency parameter alpha which may have a value between 0 and 127. 0 indicates completely opaque while 127 indicates completely transparent.

Returns FALSE if the allocation failed.

Example 1. Example of using imagecolorallocatealpha()

<?php
$size 
300;
$image=imagecreatetruecolor($size$size);

// something to get a white background with black border
$back imagecolorallocate($image255255255);
$border imagecolorallocate($image000);
imagefilledrectangle($image00$size 1$size 1$back);
imagerectangle($image00$size 1$size 1$border);

$yellow_x 100;
$yellow_y 75;
$red_x    120;
$red_y    165
$blue_x   187;
$blue_y   125
$radius   150;

// allocate colors with alpha values
$yellow imagecolorallocatealpha($image255255075);
$red    imagecolorallocatealpha($image2550075);
$blue   imagecolorallocatealpha($image0025575);

// drawing 3 overlapped circle
imagefilledellipse($image$yellow_x$yellow_y$radius$radius$yellow);
imagefilledellipse($image$red_x$red_y$radius$radius$red);   
imagefilledellipse($image$blue_x$blue_y$radius$radius$blue);

// don't forget to output a correct header!
header('Content-type: image/png');

// and finally, output the result
imagepng($image);
imagedestroy($image);
?>

Note: This function requires GD 2.0.1 or later (2.0.28 or later is recommended).

See also imagecolorallocate() and imagecolordeallocate().