imagepalettetotruecolor

(PHP 5 >= 5.5.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)

imagepalettetotruecolorConverts a palette based image to true color

Description

imagepalettetotruecolor(GdImage $image): bool

Converts a palette based image, created by functions like imagecreate() to a true color image, like imagecreatetruecolor().

Parameters

image

A GdImage object, returned by one of the image creation functions, such as imagecreatetruecolor().

Return Values

Returns true if the convertion was complete, or if the source image already is a true color image, otherwise false is returned.

Changelog

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

Examples

Example #1 Converts any image object to true color

<?php
// Backwards compatiblity
if(!function_exists('imagepalettetotruecolor'))
{
function
imagepalettetotruecolor(&$src)
{
if(
imageistruecolor($src))
{
return(
true);
}

$dst = imagecreatetruecolor(imagesx($src), imagesy($src));

imagecopy($dst, $src, 0, 0, 0, 0, imagesx($src), imagesy($src));
imagedestroy($src);

$src = $dst;

return(
true);
}
}

// Helper closure
$typeof = function() use($im)
{
echo
'typeof($im) = ' . (imageistruecolor($im) ? 'true color' : 'palette'), PHP_EOL;
};

// Create a palette based image
$im = imagecreate(100, 100);
$typeof();

// Convert it to true color
imagepalettetotruecolor($im);
$typeof();

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

The above example will output:

typeof($im) = palette
typeof($im) = true color

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