PHP | imagestring() Function

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The imagestring() function is an inbuilt function in PHP which is used to draw the string horizontally. This function draws the string at given position.

Syntax:

bool imagestring( $image, $font, $x, $y, $string, $color )

Parameters: This function accepts six parameters as mentioned above and described below:

$image: The imagecreatetruecolor() function is used to create a blank image in a given size.
$font: This parameter is used to set the font size. Inbuilt font in latin2 encoding can be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or other font identifiers registered with imageloadfont() function.
$x: This parameter is used to hold the x-coordinate of the upper left corner.
$y: This parameter is used to hold the y-coordinate of the upper left corner.
$string: This parameter is used to hold the string to be written.
$color: This parameter is used to hold the color of image.

Return Value: This function returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

Below programs illustrate the imagestring() function in PHP.
Program 1:

<?php 
   
// Create the size of image or blank image 
$image = imagecreate(500, 300); 
   
// Set the background color of image 
$background_color = imagecolorallocate($image, 0, 153, 0); 
   
// Set the text color of image 
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 255, 255); 
   
// Function to create image which contains string. 
imagestring($image, 5, 180, 100,  "zambiatek", $text_color); 
imagestring($image, 3, 160, 120,  "A computer science portal", $text_color); 
   
header("Content-Type: image/png"); 
   
imagepng($image); 
imagedestroy($image); 
?> 

Output:

Program 2:

<?php 
  
// Create the size of image or blank image 
$image = imagecreate(500, 300); 
  
// Set the background color of image 
$background_color = imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 255, 255); 
  
// Set the text color of image 
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($image, 0, 153, 0); 
  
// Function to create image which contains string. 
imagestring($image, 5, 50, 100,  
     "zambiatek: A computer science portal", $text_color); 
  
header("Content-Type: image/png"); 
  
imagepng($image); 
imagedestroy($image); 
?> 