imagechar() function in PHP

The imagechar() function draws a character horizontally.

Syntax

bool imagechar( img, font, x, y, ch, color )

Parameters

• img: Creating an image with imagecreatetruecolor().

• font: Set font size

• x: x-coordinate

• y: y-coordinate

• c: The character to draw.

• color: A color identifier created with imagecolorallocate().

Return

The imagechar() function returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

Example

The following is an example:

<?php
   $img = imagecreate(400, 300);
   $str = 'Demo';
   $bgcolor = imagecolorallocate($img, 30, 80, 70);
   $textcolor = imagecolorallocate($img, 255, 255, 255);
   imagechar($img, 80, 100, 90, $str, $textcolor);
   header('Content-type: image/png');
   imagepng($img);
?>

Output

The following is the output:

Example

Let us see another example wherein we are drawing a character with different coordinates and height/ width as shown in the above example:

<?php
   $img = imagecreate(350, 270);
   $str = 'Example';
   $bgcolor = imagecolorallocate($img, 70, 100, 130);
   $textcolor = imagecolorallocate($img, 200, 195, 210);
   imagechar($img, 100, 50, 70, $str, $textcolor);
   header('Content-type: image/png');
   imagepng($img);
?>

Output

The following is the output: