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imagecolortransparent

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

imagecolortransparent — Define a color as transparent

Description

imagecolortransparent(GdImage $image, ?int $color = null): int

Gets or sets the transparent color in the given image.

Parameters

image: A GdImage object, returned by one of the image creation functions, such as imagecreatetruecolor().
color: A color identifier created with imagecolorallocate().

Return Values

The identifier of the new (or current, if none is specified) transparent color is returned. If color is null, and the image has no transparent color, the returned identifier will be -1.

Changelog

Version	Description
8.0.0	`image` expects a GdImage instance now; previously, a valid `gd` resource was expected.
8.0.0	`color` is now nullable.

Examples

Example #1 imagecolortransparent() example

<?php
// Create a 55x30 image
$im = imagecreatetruecolor(55, 30);
$red = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 0, 0);
$black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);

// Make the background transparent
imagecolortransparent($im, $black);

// Draw a red rectangle
imagefilledrectangle($im, 4, 4, 50, 25, $red);

// Save the image
imagepng($im, './imagecolortransparent.png');
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

Notes

Note:

Transparency is copied only with imagecopymerge() and true color images, not with imagecopy() or pallete images.

Note:

The transparent color is a property of the image, transparency is not a property of the color. Once you have set a color to be the transparent color, any regions of the image in that color that were drawn previously will be transparent.

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