On Tue, October 18, 2005 2:21 pm, John Nichel wrote:
> I'm diving into the gd functions for the first time, and I'm having a
> problem creating a white background for an image when using
> imagecreatetruecolor(). The manual says that this function will
> create
> a _black_ image, but looking at imagecolorallocate() it says that the
> first call to this function fills the background color, and they have
> examples like this...
>
> $im = imagecreatetruecolor('example.jpg');
> // sets background to red
> $background = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 0, 0);
> And that creates the image with the right sizes and positions, but the
> background is black. Is there something wrong in my code, or is the
> manual wrong on the imagecolorallocate() function? TIA.
I believe the automatic filling in of the background color may have
been only in GD 1.0 or something...
I'm not sure I ever saw it work.
On the plus side, it's easy to fill in the background:
imagefilledrectangle($image, 0, 0, $width - 1, $height - 1, $background);
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