PHP 7.0.6 Released

    imagecharup

    (PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

    imagecharup — Draw a character vertically

    Description

    bool imagecharup ( resource $image , int $font , int $x , int $y , string $c , int $color )

    Draws the character c vertically at the specified coordinate on the given image.

    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 imagecharup() example

    <?php

    $im     = imagecreate(100, 100);

    $string = 'Note that the first letter is a N';

    $bg = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
    $black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);

    // prints a black "Z" on a white background
    imagecharup($im, 3, 10, 10, $string, $black);

    header('Content-type: image/png');
    imagepng($im);

    ?>

    The above example will output something similar to:

    Output of example : imagecharup()

    See Also

    User Contributed Notes

    jansafar at volny dot cz
    10 years ago
    I'm using imagestringup() function to write text upwards.
    evolution at turkishboyz dot net
    10 years ago
    <?
    $resim = imagecreatetruecolor(400,400);
    $renk1 = imagecolorallocate($resim,222,222,222);
    $renk2 = imagecolorallocate($resim,111,111,111);
    $renk3 = imagecolorallocate($resim,123,123,123);
    $yazi  = "Merhaba Dunyalilar";
    $x     =strlen($yazi);
    for($a=1;$a<=$x;$a++){
        imagecharup($resim,10,20,20*$a,$yazi,$renk2);
        $yazi = substr($yazi,1);
        }
    imagejpeg($resim);
    imagedestroy($resim);
    ?>
    php at corzoogle dot com
    10 years ago
    <?php
    // incredibly, no one has added this.
    // write a string of text vertically on an image..
    // ;o)

    $string = '(c) corz.org';
    $font_size = 2;
    $img = imagecreate(20,90);
    $bg = imagecolorallocate($img,225,225,225);
    $black = imagecolorallocate($img,0,0,0);

    $len = strlen($string);
    for (    $i=1; $i<=$len; $i++) {
            imagecharup($img, $font_size, 5, imagesy($img)-($i*imagefontwidth($font_size)), $string, $black);
            $string = substr($string,1);
    }
    header('Content-type: image/png');
    imagepng($img);
    imagedestroy($img); // dudes! don't forget this!
    ?>
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