Posted by Jochem Maas on 01/31/05 17:40

NathanielGuy#21 wrote:
> Yes, I was mainly wanting to know if I needed to call it at all with
> what I was doing.
>

not unless you want to create a new image (and add some part of another image
to it, add some text etc) and output that. also IIRC its only available in
GDlib 2.0.x and up.

>
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:45:32 +0100, Jochem Maas <jochem@iamjochem.com> wrote:
>
>>NathanielGuy#21 wrote:
>>
>>>Ah, thank you. after checking that the folder was there I found I had
>>>made a mistake in the path to the folder. 8_ I can believe I didnt
>>>find it before. Aside from that error, did I go about the image
>>>resizing and everything in the correct way? What is the use of
>>>imagecreatetruecolor(). Thanks for the help.
>>
>>imagecreatetruecolor
>>
>>(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5)
>>imagecreatetruecolor -- Create a new true color image
>>Description
>>resource imagecreatetruecolor ( int x_size, int y_size )
>>
>>imagecreatetruecolor() returns an image identifier representing a black image of size x_size by y_size.
>>
>>Example 1. Creating a new GD image stream and outputting an image.
>><?php
>>header ("Content-type: image/png");
>>$im = @imagecreatetruecolor(50, 100)
>> or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
>>$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 233, 14, 91);
>>imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5, "A Simple Text String", $text_color);
>>imagepng($im);
>>imagedestroy($im);
>>?>
>>
>> Note: This function requires GD 2.0.1 or later.
>>
>> Note: This function will not work with GIF file formats.
>>
>>See also imagedestroy() and imagecreate().
>>
>>---
>>
>>for a more well laided out copy of this text goto:
>>http://nl2.php.net/imagecreatetruecolor
>>
>>or maybe the manual wasn't clear to you and you are seeking further
>>clarification?
>>
>>
>
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