The imagexbm() function is an inbuilt function in PHP which is used to display image to browser a file. The main use of this function is to view an image in the browser and convert any other image type to XBM.
Syntax:
bool imagexbm( resource $image, int $to, int $foreground)
Parameters: This function accepts three parameters as mentioned above and described below:
- $image: It specifies the image resource to work on.
- $to (Optional): It specifies the path to save the file to.
- $foreground (Optional): It specifies the foreground of the image.
Return Value: This function returns TRUE on success or FALSE on error.
Below examples illustrate the imagexbm() function in PHP:
Example 1: In this example we will be downloading an image in browser.
<?php   // Load an xbm image from local folder // Image can be converted into xbm using // online convertors or imagexbm() $im = imagecreatefromxbm('neveropen.xbm');   // Download the image header('Content-Type: image/xbm'); imagexbm($im); imagedestroy($im); ?> |
Output:
This will download your image as download, further you can rename this file to anything like neveropen.xbm and use it.
Example 2: In this example we will convert PNG into XBM.
<?php   // Load an image from PNG URL $im = imagecreatefrompng(   // Convert the image into XBM using imagexbm() function imagexbm($im, 'converted.xbm'); imagedestroy($im); ?> |
Output:
This will save the XBM version of image in the same folder where your PHP script is.
Reference: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imagexbm.php
