imagecreate

Create a new palette based image (PHP 3, PHP 4 )
resource imagecreate ( int x_size, int y_size )

imagecreate() returns an image identifier representing a blank image of size x_size by y_size.

We recommend the use of imagecreatetruecolor().

Example 412. Creating a new GD image stream and outputting an image.

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<?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);
imagedestroy ($im);
?>

See also imagedestroy() and imagecreatetruecolor().

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