imagecreate
    (PHP 3, PHP 4 )
imagecreate -- Create a new palette based image
Description
resource 
imagecreate ( int x_size, int y_size)
    imagecreate() returns an image identifier
    representing a blank image of size x_size
    by y_size.
   
    We recommend the use of imagecreatetruecolor().
   
    
Example 1. 
      Creating a new GD image stream and outputting an image.
      <?php
header ("Content-type: image/png");
$im = @imagecreate (50, 100)
    or die ("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
$background_color = imagecolorallocate ($im, 255, 255, 255);
$text_color = imagecolorallocate ($im, 233, 14, 91);
imagestring ($im, 1, 5, 5,  "A Simple Text String", $text_color);
imagepng ($im);
imagedestroy ($im);
?> |  
  | 
   
    See also imagedestroy() and
    imagecreatetruecolor().