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<h1 class="refname">imagecreate</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 4, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">imagecreate</span> — <span class="dc-title">Create a new palette based image</span></p>
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<div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.imagecreate-description">
<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="type">resource</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>imagecreate</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">int</span> <code class="parameter">$width</code></span>
, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">int</span> <code class="parameter">$height</code></span>
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<p class="para rdfs-comment">
<span class="function"><strong>imagecreate()</strong></span> returns an image identifier
representing a blank image of specified size.
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In general, we recommend the use of
<span class="function"><a href="function.imagecreatetruecolor.html" class="function">imagecreatetruecolor()</a></span> instead of
<span class="function"><strong>imagecreate()</strong></span> so that image processing occurs on the
highest quality image possible. If you want to output a palette image, then
<span class="function"><a href="function.imagetruecolortopalette.html" class="function">imagetruecolortopalette()</a></span> should be called immediately
before saving the image with <span class="function"><a href="function.imagepng.html" class="function">imagepng()</a></span> or
<span class="function"><a href="function.imagegif.html" class="function">imagegif()</a></span>.
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<div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.imagecreate-parameters">
<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
<p class="para">
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<dt>
<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">width</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
The image width.
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</dd>
</dt>
<dt>
<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">height</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
The image height.
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</dd>
</dt>
</dl>
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<div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.imagecreate-returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
<p class="para">Returns an image resource identifier on success, <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> on errors.</p>
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<div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-function.imagecreate-examples">
<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
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<div class="example" id="example-3208">
<p><strong>Example #1
Creating a new GD image stream and outputting an image.
</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />header</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type: image/png"</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$im </span><span style="color: #007700">= @</span><span style="color: #0000BB">imagecreate</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">110</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">20</span><span style="color: #007700">)<br /> or die(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Cannot Initialize new GD image stream"</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$background_color </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">imagecolorallocate</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$im</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">0</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">0</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">0</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$text_color </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">imagecolorallocate</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$im</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">233</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">14</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">91</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">imagestring</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$im</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">1</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">5</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">5</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"A Simple Text String"</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$text_color</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">imagepng</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$im</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">imagedestroy</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$im</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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</code></div>
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<div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output
something similar to:</p></div>
<div class="mediaobject">
<div class="imageobject">
<img src="images/21009b70229598c6a80eef8b45bf282b-imagecreate.png" alt="Output of example : Creating a new GD image stream and outputting an image." width="110" height="25" />
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<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.imagecreate-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<ul class="simplelist">
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.imagedestroy.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">imagedestroy()</a> - Destroy an image</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.imagecreatetruecolor.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">imagecreatetruecolor()</a> - Create a new true color image</span></li>
</ul>
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