PHP imagecreatefromxpm Function: Creating Images from XPM Files

The PHP function imagecreatefromxpm() creates a new image resource from a given XPM file or URL.

Syntax: resource imagecreatefromxpm(string $filename). The $filename parameter specifies the path to the XPM image. On success the function returns an image resource; on failure it returns FALSE.

Below is a practical example that checks for XPM support, loads an XPM file, performs image operations, saves the result as a JPEG with full quality, and finally destroys the image resource.

<?php
// Check for XPM support
if (!imagetypes() & IMG_XPM) {
    die('Support for xpm was not found!');
}

// Create the image instance
$xpm = imagecreatefromxpm('./example.xpm');

// Do image operations here
// PHP has no support for writing xpm images
// so in this case we save the image as a jpeg file with 100% quality
imagejpeg($xpm, './example.jpg', 100);

imagedestroy($xpm);
?>