imagechar

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imagechar - Draw a character horizontally
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imagechar( GdImage$image, GdFont|int$font, int$x, int$y, string$char, int$color ): bool

imagechar draws the first character of char in the image identified by image with its upper-left at x,y (top left is 0, 0) with the color color.

Parameters

image

A GdImage object, returned by one of the image creation functions, such as imagecreatetruecolor.

font

Can be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 for built-in fonts in latin2 encoding (where higher numbers corresponding to larger fonts) or GdFont instance, returned by imageloadfont.

x

x-coordinate of the start.

y

y-coordinate of the start.

char

The character to draw.

color

A color identifier created with imagecolorallocate.

Return Values

Returns true on success or false on failure.

Changelog

Version Description
8.1.0 The font parameter now accepts both an GdFont instance and an int; previously only int was accepted.
8.0.0 image expects a GdImage instance now; previously, a resource was expected.

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