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imagecreatefromwbmp

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.1, PHP 5)

imagecreatefromwbmp — Create a new image from file or URL

Description

resource imagecreatefromwbmp ( string $filename )

imagecreatefromwbmp() returns an image identifier representing the image obtained from the given filename.

imagecreatefromwbmp() returns an empty string on failure. It also outputs an error message, which unfortunately displays as a broken link in a browser. To ease debugging the following example will produce an error WBMP:

Example#1 Example to handle an error during creation

<?php
function LoadWBMP($imgname)
{
    
$im = @imagecreatefromwbmp($imgname); /* Attempt to open */
    
if (!$im) { /* See if it failed */
        
$im  imagecreatetruecolor (2020); /* Create a blank image */
        
$bgc imagecolorallocate($im255255255);
        
$tc  imagecolorallocate($im000);
        
imagefilledrectangle($im001010$bgc);
        
/* Output an errmsg */
        
imagestring($im155"Error loading $imgname"$tc);
    }
    return 
$im;
}
?>

Tip

You can use a URL as a filename with this function if the fopen wrappers have been enabled. See fopen() for more details on how to specify the filename and List of Supported Protocols/Wrappers for a list of supported URL protocols.

Parameters

filename

Path to the WBMP image

Return Values

Returns an image resource identifier on success, FALSE on errors.

Notes

Note: WBMP support is only available if PHP was compiled against GD-1.8 or later.

Warning

Windows versions of PHP prior to PHP 4.3.0 do not support accessing remote files via this function, even if allow_url_fopen is enabled.