<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >imagegif</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="imagegd" HREF="function.imagegd.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="imageinterlace" HREF="function.imageinterlace.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.imagegd.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.imageinterlace.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.imagegif" ></A >imagegif</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN35887" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >imagegif -- Output image to browser or file</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN35890" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >int <B CLASS="methodname" >imagegif</B > ( resource image [, string filename])<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >imagegif()</B > creates the <SPAN CLASS="acronym" >GIF</SPAN > file in filename from the image <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >image</I ></TT >. The <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >image</I ></TT > argument is the return from the <A HREF="function.imagecreate.html" ><B CLASS="function" >imagecreate()</B ></A > function. </P ><P > The image format will be <SPAN CLASS="acronym" >GIF87a</SPAN > unless the image has been made transparent with <A HREF="function.imagecolortransparent.html" ><B CLASS="function" >imagecolortransparent()</B ></A >, in which case the image format will be <SPAN CLASS="acronym" >GIF89a</SPAN >. </P ><P > The filename argument is optional, and if left off, the raw image stream will be output directly. By sending an image/gif content-type using <A HREF="function.header.html" ><B CLASS="function" >header()</B ></A >, you can create a PHP script that outputs <SPAN CLASS="acronym" >GIF</SPAN > images directly. <DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > Since all <SPAN CLASS="acronym" >GIF</SPAN > support was removed from the <SPAN CLASS="acronym" >GD</SPAN > library in version 1.6, this function is not available if you are using that version of the GD library. </P ><P > The following code snippet allows you to write more portable PHP applications by auto-detecting the type of GD support which is available. Replace the sequence <TT CLASS="literal" >header ("Content-type: image/gif"); imagegif ($im);</TT > by the more flexible sequence: <DIV CLASS="informalexample" ><A NAME="AEN35920" ></A ><P ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php if (function_exists("imagegif")) { header ("Content-type: image/gif"); imagegif ($im); } elseif (function_exists("imagejpeg")) { header ("Content-type: image/jpeg"); imagejpeg ($im, "", 0.5); } elseif (function_exists("imagepng")) { header ("Content-type: image/png"); imagepng ($im); } elseif (function_exists("imagewbmp")) { header ("Content-type: image/vnd.wap.wbmp"); imagewbmp ($im); } else die("No image support in this PHP server"); ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV > </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV > <DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > As of version 3.0.18 and 4.0.2 you can use the function <A HREF="function.imagetypes.html" ><B CLASS="function" >imagetypes()</B ></A > in place of <A HREF="function.function-exists.html" ><B CLASS="function" >function_exists()</B ></A > for checking the presence of the various supported image formats: <DIV CLASS="informalexample" ><A NAME="AEN35926" ></A ><P ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >if (imagetypes() & IMG_GIF) { header ("Content-type: image/gif"); imagegif ($im); } elseif (imagetypes() & IMG_JPG) { ... etc.</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV > </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV > </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.imagepng.html" ><B CLASS="function" >imagepng()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.imagewbmp.html" ><B CLASS="function" >imagewbmp()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.imagejpeg.html" ><B CLASS="function" >imagejpeg()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.imagetypes.html" ><B CLASS="function" >imagetypes()</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.imagegd.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.imageinterlace.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >imagegd</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" >imageinterlace</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >