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Name

imagechar — Draws a single character.

Synopsis

int imagechar(image, font, x, y, char, color); int image: Image identifier int font: Font value int x: X coordinate int y: Y coordinate string char: Character to be written int color: Color

Returns

Always TRUE

Description

Draws a single character of a specified color and font at the x and y coordinates. The font type must be 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5, which are the internally available GD fonts, unless you've loaded a custom font using imageloadfont() . This function is only for drawing a single character. If char is more than one character long, the string will be truncated past the first character. For longer strings, use imagestring() .

Example

Example 391. Draw a single character

header("Content-type: image/png");
$im = imagecreate(200, 200);
$red = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 0, 0);
$white = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
imagefill($im, 0, 0, $red);
imagechar($im, 4, 100, 100, "y", $white);
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);

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