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imagecolorallocatealpha

(PHP 4 >= 4.3.2, PHP 5)

imagecolorallocatealphaAllocate a color for an image

Description

int imagecolorallocatealpha ( resource $image , int $red , int $green , int $blue , int $alpha )

imagecolorallocatealpha() behaves identically to imagecolorallocate() with the addition of the transparency parameter alpha.

Parameters

image

An image resource, returned by one of the image creation functions, such as imagecreatetruecolor().

red

Value of red component.

green

Value of green component.

blue

Value of blue component.

alpha

A value between 0 and 127. 0 indicates completely opaque while 127 indicates completely transparent.

The colors parameters are integers between 0 and 255 or hexadecimals between 0x00 and 0xFF.

Return Values

A color identifier or FALSE if the allocation failed.

Warning

This function may return Boolean FALSE, but may also return a non-Boolean value which evaluates to FALSE, such as 0 or "". Please read the section on Booleans for more information. Use the === operator for testing the return value of this function.

Changelog

Version Description
Prior to 5.1.3 Returns -1 if the allocation failed.

Examples

Example #1 Example of using imagecolorallocatealpha()

<?php
$size 
300;
$image=imagecreatetruecolor($size$size);

// something to get a white background with black border
$back imagecolorallocate($image255255255);
$border imagecolorallocate($image000);
imagefilledrectangle($image00$size 1$size 1$back);
imagerectangle($image00$size 1$size 1$border);

$yellow_x 100;
$yellow_y 75;
$red_x    120;
$red_y    165;
$blue_x   187;
$blue_y   125;
$radius   150;

// allocate colors with alpha values
$yellow imagecolorallocatealpha($image255255075);
$red    imagecolorallocatealpha($image2550075);
$blue   imagecolorallocatealpha($image0025575);

// drawing 3 overlapped circle
imagefilledellipse($image$yellow_x$yellow_y$radius$radius$yellow);
imagefilledellipse($image$red_x$red_y$radius$radius$red);
imagefilledellipse($image$blue_x$blue_y$radius$radius$blue);

// don't forget to output a correct header!
header('Content-type: image/png');

// and finally, output the result
imagepng($image);
imagedestroy($image);
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

Output of example : Example of using imagecolorallocatealpha()

Notes

Note: This function requires GD 2.0.1 or later (2.0.28 or later is recommended).

See Also


GD and Image Functions
PHP Manual