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Imagecreate () PHP Function

By Angela Bradley, About.com

Definition: The imagecreate () function is used in PHP to create a new palette based image using the GD Library. It's two parameters are width and then height of the image to be created.
Also Known As: Image Create, PHP Image Create
Examples:
<?php header ("Content-type: image/png");
$handle = ImageCreate (130, 50) or die ("Cannot Create image");
$bg_color = ImageColorAllocate ($handle, 255, 0, 0);
ImagePng ($handle);
?>

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