<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Create a new true color image</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.imagecreatefromxpm.html">imagecreatefromxpm</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.imagecrop.html">imagecrop</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.image.html">GD and Image Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="function.imagecreatetruecolor" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">imagecreatetruecolor</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5, PHP 7)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">imagecreatetruecolor</span> — <span class="dc-title">Create a new true color image</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.imagecreatetruecolor-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="type">resource</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>imagecreatetruecolor</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> )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> <span class="function"><strong>imagecreatetruecolor()</strong></span> returns an image identifier representing a black image of the specified size. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.imagecreatetruecolor-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para"> <dl> <dt> <code class="parameter">width</code></dt> <dd> <p class="para"> Image width. </p> </dd> <dt> <code class="parameter">height</code></dt> <dd> <p class="para"> Image height. </p> </dd> </dl> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.imagecreatetruecolor-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> </div> <div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-function.imagecreatetruecolor-examples"> <h3 class="title">Examples</h3> <p class="para"> <div class="example" id="example-3784"> <p><strong>Example #1 Creating a new GD image stream and outputting an image. </strong></p> <div class="example-contents"> <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">$im </span><span style="color: #007700">= @</span><span style="color: #0000BB">imagecreatetruecolor</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">120</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">20</span><span style="color: #007700">)<br /> or die(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Cannot Initialize new GD image stream'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$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> </span> </code></div> </div> <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-imagecreatetruecolor.png" alt="Output of example : Creating a new GD image stream and outputting an image." width="120" height="20" /> </div> </div> </div> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.imagecreatetruecolor-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <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.imagecreate.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">imagecreate()</a> - Create a new palette based image</span></li> </ul> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.imagecreatefromxpm.html">imagecreatefromxpm</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a 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