Please pay attention if you want to draw pixel perfect rectangles: Since this function uses absolute values for the second coordinate points (instead of width and height), you might face a logical problem. PHP counts from 0. But a pixel at position 0,0 occupies already a 1x1 space. In the example above you have the following line:
imagerectangle($canvas, 50, 50, 150, 150, $pink);
If you don't pay attention, you might thing that the difference between the two coordinates is exactly 100 and assume that the drawn rectangle would have the dimension of 100 x 100 pixels too. But it would be 101 x 101, because PHP counts from 0 and imagerectangle() uses absolute coordinates for the second point too. A smaller example: A rectangle with coordinates 0,0 and 5,5 means 0,1,2,3,4,5 which are 6 pixels, not 5.imagerectangle
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imagerectangle — Draw a rectangle
Description
imagerectangle() creates a rectangle starting at the specified coordinates.
Parameters
-
image A GdImage object, returned by one of the image creation functions, such as imagecreatetruecolor().
x1-
Upper left x coordinate.
y1-
Upper left y coordinate 0, 0 is the top left corner of the image.
x2-
Bottom right x coordinate.
y2-
Bottom right y coordinate.
color-
A color identifier created with imagecolorallocate().
Changelog
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 8.0.0 |
image expects a GdImage
instance now; previously, a valid gd resource was expected.
|
Examples
Example #1 Simple imagerectangle() example
<?php
// Create a 200 x 200 image
$canvas = imagecreatetruecolor(200, 200);
// Allocate colors
$pink = imagecolorallocate($canvas, 255, 105, 180);
$white = imagecolorallocate($canvas, 255, 255, 255);
$green = imagecolorallocate($canvas, 132, 135, 28);
// Draw three rectangles each with its own color
imagerectangle($canvas, 50, 50, 150, 150, $pink);
imagerectangle($canvas, 45, 60, 120, 100, $white);
imagerectangle($canvas, 100, 120, 75, 160, $green);
// Output
header('Content-Type: image/jpeg');
imagejpeg($canvas);
?>The above example will output something similar to:
User Contributed Notes
stanislav dot eckert at vizson dot de
9 years ago
eustaquiorangel at yahoo dot com
22 years ago
If you want an empty rectangle, I mean, just the borders, fill it first with the ImageFilledRectangle function with the background color and then draw it with this function.
rogier
17 years ago
In addition to Corey's note, this is the kind of code he means. Note that I always draw an outer grid border, so drawing lines will always take
1 + ceil((rows+cols)/2) actions. For a 20X20 grid, this means 21 actions, a 10X25 grid takes 19 Actions
<?php
function draw_grid(&$img, $x0, $y0, $width, $height, $cols, $rows, $color) {
//draw outer border
imagerectangle($img, $x0, $y0, $x0+$width*$cols, $y0+$height*$rows, $color);
//first draw horizontal
$x1 = $x0;
$x2 = $x0 + $cols*$width;
for ($n=0; $n<ceil($rows/2); $n++) {
$y1 = $y0 + 2*$n*$height;
$y2 = $y0 + (2*$n+1)*$height;
imagerectangle($img, $x1,$y1,$x2,$y2, $color);
}
//then draw vertical
$y1 = $y0;
$y2 = $y0 + $rows*$height;
for ($n=0; $n<ceil($cols/2); $n++) {
$x1 = $x0 + 2*$n*$width;
$x2 = $x0 + (2*$n+1)*$width;
imagerectangle($img, $x1,$y1,$x2,$y2, $color);
}
}
//example
$img = imagecreatetruecolor(300, 200);
$red = imagecolorallocate($img, 255, 0, 0);
draw_grid($img, 0,0,15,20,20,10,$red);
header("Content-type: image/png");
imagepng($img);
imagedestroy($img);
?>
have fun ;)