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# imagechar

(PHP 3, 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. If font is 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, a built-in font is used (with higher numbers corresponding to larger fonts).

Example 1. imagechar() example
`<?php $im = imagecreatetruecolor(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); ?>`

See also imagecharup() and imageloadfont().

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