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PHP imagecreatetruecolor Function: Creating True Color Images

The article explains PHP's imagecreatetruecolor function, detailing its purpose of creating a true‑color image resource, required parameters width and height, version compatibility notes, return values, and provides a complete example script that generates a PNG with custom text.

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PHP imagecreatetruecolor Function: Creating True Color Images

imagecreatetruecolor() creates a new true‑color image resource of the specified width and height.

The function is available when PHP is compiled with the GD library; its existence depends on the PHP and GD versions, with different error handling in older releases.

Parameters

width – image width in pixels.

height – image height in pixels.

Return value

On success it returns an image resource; on failure it returns FALSE .

Example

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