Draw a character horizontally

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# imagechar

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

imagechar — Draw a character horizontally

### Description

bool 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`.

### Parameters

`image`

  An image resource, returned by one of the image creation functions, such as imagecreatetruecolor().

`font`

  Can be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 for built-in fonts in latin2 encoding (where higher numbers corresponding to larger fonts) or any of your own font identifiers registered with imageloadfont().

`x`

  x-coordinate of the start.

`y`

  y-coordinate of the start.

`c`

  The character to draw.

`color`

  A color identifier created with imagecolorallocate().

### Return Values

Returns `TRUE` on success or `FALSE` on failure.

### Examples

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);
?>`

The above example will output something similar to:

### See Also

- imagecharup() - Draw a character vertically
- imageloadfont() - Load a new font

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