imagestring() is an inbuilt function in PHP that is used to draw a string horizontally.
Syntax
bool imagestring($image, $font, $x, $y, $string, $color)
Parameters
imagestring() accepts six different parameters − $image, $font, $x, $y, $string, and $color.
$image − The $image parameter uses imagecreatetruecolor() function to create a blank image in the given size.
$font − The $font parameter is used to set the font size values from 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 for inbuilt fonts.
$x − Holds the position of the font in the horizontal X-axis, upper leftmost corner.
$y − Holds the position of the font in the vertical Y-axis, topmost corner.
$string − The $string parameter holds the string to be written.
$color − This parameter holds the color of the image.
Return Values
imagestring() returns True on success and False on failure.
Example 1
<?php
// Create the size and image by using imagecreate() function.
$img = imagecreate(700, 300);
// Set the background color of the image
$background_color = imagecolorallocate($img, 0, 0, 255);
// Set the text color of the image
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($img, 255, 255, 255);
// Function to create an image that contains the string.
imagestring($img, 50, 180, 150, "Tutorialspoint", $text_color);
imagestring($img, 30, 160, 120, "Simply Easy Learning", $text_color);
header("Content-Type: image/png");
imagepng($img);
imagedestroy($img);
?>Output
Example 2
<?php
// Create the size of the image or blank image
$img = imagecreate(700, 300);
// Set the background color of the image
$background_color = imagecolorallocate($img, 122, 122, 122);
// Set the text color of the image
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($img, 255, 255, 0);
// Function to create an image that contains a string.
imagestring($img, 10, 30, 60,"Tutorialspoint:Simply Easy Learning", $text_color);
header("Content-Type: image/png");
imagepng($img);
imagedestroy($img);
?>Output
