imagecreatetruecolor

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5)

imagecreatetruecolor -- Create a new true color image

Description

resource imagecreatetruecolor ( int x_size, int y_size )

imagecreatetruecolor() returns an image identifier representing a black image of size x_size by y_size.

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

<?php
header ("Content-type: image/png");
$im = @imagecreatetruecolor(50, 100)
      or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 233, 14, 91);
imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5,  "A Simple Text String", $text_color);
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>

Note: This function requires GD 2.0.1 or later.

Note: This function will not work with GIF file formats.

See also imagedestroy() and imagecreate().