imagestring

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

Draw a string horizontally

bool imagestring ( resource $image, int $font, int $x, int $y, string $string, int $color )

Draws a string at the given coordinates.

Parameters:

image

An image resource, 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 any of your own font identifiers registered with imageloadfont().

x-coordinate of the upper left corner.

y-coordinate of the upper left corner.

string

The string to be written.

color

A color identifier created with imagecolorallocate().

Returns:

Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

Examples:

imagestring() example

<?php
// Create a 100*30 image
$im = imagecreate(100, 30);

// White background and blue text
$bg = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$textcolor = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 255);

// Write the string at the top left
imagestring($im, 5, 0, 0, 'Hello world!', $textcolor);

// Output the image
header('Content-type: image/png');

imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>

The above example will output something similar to: