imagebmp

Output a BMP image to browser or file

Description

bool imagebmp ( resource $image , mixed $to [, bool $compressed = TRUE ] )

Outputs or saves a BMP version of the given image.

Parameters

image: An image resource, returned by one of the image creation functions, such as imagecreatetruecolor.
to: The path or an open stream resource (which is automatically being closed after this function returns) to save the file to. If not set or NULL, the raw image stream will be outputted directly.
compressed: Whether the BMP should be compressed with run-length encoding (RLE), or not.

Return Values

Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

Examples

Example #1 Saving a BMP file


<?php
// Create a blank image and add some text
$im = imagecreatetruecolor(120, 20);
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 233, 14, 91);

imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5,  'BMP with PHP', $text_color);

// Save the image
imagebmp($im, 'php.bmp');

// Free up memory
imagedestroy($im);
?>