imagecreate

(PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5)

imagecreate -- Create a new palette based image

Description

resource imagecreate ( int x_size, int y_size )

imagecreate() returns an image identifier representing a blank image of size x_size by y_size.

We recommend the use of imagecreatetruecolor().

Example 1. Creating a new GD image stream and outputting an image.

<?php
header
("Content-type: image/png");
$im = @imagecreate(10050)
    or die(
"Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
$background_color imagecolorallocate($im255255255);
$text_color imagecolorallocate($im2331491);
imagestring($im155,  "A Simple Text String"$text_color);
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>

See also imagedestroy() and imagecreatetruecolor().