In short we could say that:
The functions below are part of the GD library, which in turn was
developed for the treatment of images. It is a library
open source for dynamic image creation by programmers.
The library creates PNG, JPEG and GIF, among other formats it is usually
used to generate graphics, thumbnails, banners ...
According to the official documentation , syntax:
resource imagecreatetruecolor ( int $width , int $height )
imagecreatetruecolor () returns an identifier that represents a black image of the specified size. In short:
imagecreatetruecolor ($largura ,$altura )
It takes two parameters, both are integers and returns a resource that will be used by other methods to continue the work of constructing an image.
See an example contained in official documentation :
<?php
header ('Content-Type: image/png');
$im = imagecreatetruecolor(120, 50)
or die('Cannot Initialize new GD image stream');
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 233, 14, 91);
imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5, 'Issoé um teste', $text_color);
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
Explaining line by line:
In the first line we define a header ( header ) for our page, ie it will be a PNG
We use imagecreatetruecolor () to create the "base" of the image. In short: we create a new image true color
imagecolorallocate () allocates a color for an image
imagestring () - Draws a string horizontally. This is where we pass the resource, information from which source will be used, text string and font color
imagepng () - Emits a PNG image for the browser or file
imagedestroy () - Destroy the image ("clean the memory")