The bug reported by 'michi at marel dot at' also exists in PHP version 5.1.1. This functions just works with vertical lines!
imagedashedline
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
imagedashedline — Draw a dashed line
Description
bool imagedashedline
( resource
$image
, int $x1
, int $y1
, int $x2
, int $y2
, int $color
)This function is deprecated. Use combination of imagesetstyle() and imageline() instead.
Parameters
-
image -
An image resource, returned by one of the image creation functions, such as imagecreatetruecolor().
-
x1 -
Upper left x coordinate.
-
y1 -
Upper left y coordinate 0, 0 is the top left corner of the image.
-
x2 -
Bottom right x coordinate.
-
y2 -
Bottom right y coordinate.
-
color -
The fill color. A color identifier created with imagecolorallocate().
Return Values
Always returns true
Examples
Example #1 imagedashedline() example
<?php
// Create a 100x100 image
$im = imagecreatetruecolor(100, 100);
$white = imagecolorallocate($im, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF);
// Draw a vertical dashed line
imagedashedline($im, 50, 25, 50, 75, $white);
// Save the image
imagepng($im, './dashedline.png');
imagedestroy($im);
?>
The above example will output something similar to:
Example #2 Alternative to imagedashedline()
<?php
// Create a 100x100 image
$im = imagecreatetruecolor(100, 100);
$white = imagecolorallocate($im, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF);
// Define our style: First 4 pixels is white and the
// next 4 is transparent. This creates the dashed line effect
$style = Array(
$white,
$white,
$white,
$white,
IMG_COLOR_TRANSPARENT,
IMG_COLOR_TRANSPARENT,
IMG_COLOR_TRANSPARENT,
IMG_COLOR_TRANSPARENT
);
imagesetstyle($im, $style);
// Draw the dashed line
imageline($im, 50, 25, 50, 75, IMG_COLOR_STYLED);
// Save the image
imagepng($im, './imageline.png');
imagedestroy($im);
?>
User Contributed Notes
ProfessorNeo at gmx dot de
10 years ago
tgabor72 at freemail dot hu
5 years ago
You can use the imagepatternedline() function with extra features instead of imagedashedline() to give a visible dashedlines and other any kind of patterned lines on your images. The routine also manages the thickness of the line. Have fun!
<?php
// imagepatternedline() function
// Routine was developed to draw any kind of straight line with thickness. Routine uses imageline() function to draw line.
// Parameters are (similar to imageline() function):
// $image: (resource) imagefile
// $xstart, $ystart: (int) x,y coordinates for first point
// $xend, $yend: (int) x,y coordinates for last point
// $color: (int) color identifier that created with imagecolorallocate()
// extra parameters:
// $thickness: (int) thickness of line in pixel
// $pattern: (string) pattern of line, which repeats continuously while line is being drawed.
// If there is '1' in the pattern that means the actual dot of line is visible,
// '0' means dot is not visible (space between two line elements).
// All characters regard for one pixel. Default: 1 dot wide dashed line with 4-4 dots and spaces.
// Examples for pattern:
// "1" or "" continuous line
// "10" close dotline
// "10000" dotline
// "111111110000001100000011111111" dotline for design drawing
// "111111111100000011000000110000001111111111" double dotline
// some examples for using imagepatternedline():
// imagepatternedline($image,300,300,442,442,$color,200,""); // a square with 200 length of edge and rotated 45 degrees
// imagepatternedline($image,100,200,289,200,$color,100,
// "11001100000011001111000011001111110000001100001100"
// ."00001111001100111100000011000000110000110011001100"
// ."11000011111100111111000011001111001111000011110000"
// ."1111001111110011000011000000001100110011"); // barcode
function imagepatternedline($image, $xstart, $ystart, $xend, $yend, $color, $thickness=1, $pattern="11000011") {
$pattern=(!strlen($pattern)) ? "1" : $pattern;
$x=$xend-$xstart;
$y=$yend-$ystart;
$length=floor(sqrt(pow(($x),2)+pow(($y),2)));
$fullpattern=$pattern;
while (strlen($fullpattern)<$length) $fullpattern.=$pattern;
if (!$length) {
if ($fullpattern[0]) imagefilledellipse($image, $xstart, $ystart, $thickness, $thickness, $color);
return;
}
$x1=$xstart;
$y1=$ystart;
$x2=$x1;
$y2=$y1;
$mx=$x/$length;
$my=$y/$length;
$line="";
for($i=0;$i<$length;$i++){
if (strlen($line)==0 or $fullpattern[$i]==$line[0]) {
$line.=$fullpattern[$i];
}else{
$x2+=strlen($line)*$mx;
$y2+=strlen($line)*$my;
if ($line[0]) imageline($image, round($x1), round($y1), round($x2-$mx), round($y2-$my), $color);
$k=1;
for($j=0;$j<$thickness-1;$j++) {
$k1=-(($k-0.5)*$my)*(floor($j*0.5)+1)*2;
$k2= (($k-0.5)*$mx)*(floor($j*0.5)+1)*2;
$k=1-$k;
if ($line[0]) {
imageline($image, round($x1)+$k1, round($y1)+$k2, round($x2-$mx)+$k1, round($y2-$my)+$k2, $color);
if ($y) imageline($image, round($x1)+$k1+1, round($y1)+$k2, round($x2-$mx)+$k1+1, round($y2-$my)+$k2, $color);
if ($x) imageline($image, round($x1)+$k1, round($y1)+$k2+1, round($x2-$mx)+$k1, round($y2-$my)+$k2+1, $color);
}
}
$x1=$x2;
$y1=$y2;
$line=$fullpattern[$i];
}
}
$x2+=strlen($line)*$mx;
$y2+=strlen($line)*$my;
if ($line[0]) imageline($image, round($x1), round($y1), round($xend), round($yend), $color);
$k=1;
for($j=0;$j<$thickness-1;$j++) {
$k1=-(($k-0.5)*$my)*(floor($j*0.5)+1)*2;
$k2= (($k-0.5)*$mx)*(floor($j*0.5)+1)*2;
$k=1-$k;
if ($line[0]) {
imageline($image, round($x1)+$k1, round($y1)+$k2, round($xend)+$k1, round($yend)+$k2, $color);
if ($y) imageline($image, round($x1)+$k1+1, round($y1)+$k2, round($xend)+$k1+1, round($yend)+$k2, $color);
if ($x) imageline($image, round($x1)+$k1, round($y1)+$k2+1, round($xend)+$k1, round($yend)+$k2+1, $color);
}
}
}
?>
alien-scripts.de
10 years ago
I make my own dashedline:
<?
for($l=50;$l<=550;$l+=5)
{
if($da == 0) { $da = 1; }
elseif($da == 1){
imageline($bild,$l,50,$l+5,50,$green);
$da = 0; }
}
?>
$l is the x-value
and we have a dashed line :)
michi at marel dot at
12 years ago
There's a bug till PHP 4.0.4 in this function. You can only draw vertical dashed lines. To draw other dashed lines you can set <ImageSetStyle> to a special dashed line and draw it by <ImageLine>.
Sample code:
<?php
function MDashedLine($image, $x0, $y0, $x1, $y1, $fg, $bg)
{
$st = array($fg, $fg, $fg, $fg, $bg, $bg, $bg, $bg);
ImageSetStyle($image, $st);
ImageLine($image, $x0, $y0, $x1, $y1, IMG_COLOR_STYLED);
}
?>
