<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >imagecreate</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Image functions" HREF="ref.image.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="imagecopyresized" HREF="function.imagecopyresized.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="imagecreatefromgd2" HREF="function.imagecreatefromgd2.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.imagecopyresized.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.imagecreatefromgd2.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.imagecreate" ></A >imagecreate</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN35091" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >imagecreate -- Create a new palette based image</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN35094" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >resource <B CLASS="methodname" >imagecreate</B > ( int x_size, int y_size)<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >imagecreate()</B > returns an image identifier representing a blank image of size <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >x_size</I ></TT > by <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >y_size</I ></TT >. </P ><P > We recommend the use of <A HREF="function.imagecreatetruecolor.html" ><B CLASS="function" >imagecreatetruecolor()</B ></A >. </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN35112" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. Creating a new GD image stream and outputting an image. </B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php header ("Content-type: image/png"); $im = @imagecreate (50, 100) or die ("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream"); $background_color = imagecolorallocate ($im, 255, 255, 255); $text_color = imagecolorallocate ($im, 233, 14, 91); imagestring ($im, 1, 5, 5, "A Simple Text String", $text_color); imagepng ($im); ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.imagecreatetruecolor.html" ><B CLASS="function" >imagecreatetruecolor()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.imagecopyresized.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.imagecreatefromgd2.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >imagecopyresized</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.image.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >imagecreatefromgd2</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >