The imagestring() function is an inbuilt function in PHP which is used to draw the string horizontally. This function draws the string at given position.
Syntax:
bool imagestring( $image, $font, $x, $y, $string, $color )
Parameters: This function accepts six parameters as mentioned above and described below:
- $image: The imagecreatetruecolor() function is used to create a blank image in a given size.
- $font: This parameter is used to set the font size. Inbuilt font in latin2 encoding can be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or other font identifiers registered with imageloadfont() function.
- $x: This parameter is used to hold the x-coordinate of the upper left corner.
- $y: This parameter is used to hold the y-coordinate of the upper left corner.
- $string: This parameter is used to hold the string to be written.
- $color: This parameter is used to hold the color of image.
Return Value: This function returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.
Below programs illustrate the imagestring() function in PHP.
Program 1:
<?php    // Create the size of image or blank image $image = imagecreate(500, 300);    // Set the background color of image $background_color = imagecolorallocate($image, 0, 153, 0);    // Set the text color of image $text_color = imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 255, 255);    // Function to create image which contains string. imagestring($image, 5, 180, 100, "neveropen", $text_color); imagestring($image, 3, 160, 120, "A computer science portal", $text_color);    header("Content-Type: image/png");    imagepng($image); imagedestroy($image); ?> |
Output:
Program 2:
<?php   // Create the size of image or blank image $image = imagecreate(500, 300);   // Set the background color of image $background_color = imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 255, 255);   // Set the text color of image $text_color = imagecolorallocate($image, 0, 153, 0);   // Function to create image which contains string. imagestring($image, 5, 50, 100,      "neveropen: A computer science portal", $text_color);   header("Content-Type: image/png");   imagepng($image); imagedestroy($image); ?> |
Output:
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Reference: http://php.net/manual/en/function.imagestring.php
