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imagechar
(PHP 3, PHP 4 )

imagechar -- Draw a character horizontally
Description
int imagechar ( resource image, int font, int x, int y, string c, int color)

imagechar() draws the first character of c in the image identified by image with its upper-left at x,y (top left is 0, 0) with the color color. If font is 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, a built-in font is used (with higher numbers corresponding to larger fonts).

Example 1. imagechar() example

<?php

$im = imagecreate(100, 100);

$string = 'PHP';

$bg = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);

// prints a black "P" in the top left corner
imagechar($im, 1, 0, 0, $string, $black);

header('Content-type: image/png');
imagepng($im);

?>

See also imagecharup() and imageloadfont().