imagecreatefromxpm

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.1, PHP 5)

imagecreatefromxpm — Create a new image from file or URL

Description

resource imagecreatefromxpm ( string $filename )

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

Tip

A URL can be used 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 XPM image.

Return Values

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

Examples

Example #1 Creating an image instance using imagecreatefromxpm()

<?php
// Check for XPM support
if(!(imagetypes() & IMG_XPM))
{
    die('Support for xpm was not found!');
}

// Create the image instance
$xpm = imagecreatefromxpm('./example.xpm');

// Do image operations here

// PHP has no support for writing xpm images
// so in this case we save the image as a 
// jpeg file with 100% quality
imagejpeg($im, './example.jpg', 100);
imagedestroy($im);
?>

Return Values

Note: This function is only available if PHP is compiled with the bundled version of the GD library.

Note: This function is not implemented on Windows platforms.