imageellipse() is an inbuilt function in PHP that is used to draw an ellipse. It returns True on success and False on failure.
Syntax
Bool imageellipse($image, $cx, $cy, $width, $height, $color)
Parameters
imageellipse() takes six different paramters: $image, $cx, $cy, $width, $height, $color.
$image − Creates the size of the image. It is returned by one of the image creation functions, such as imagecreatetruecolor().
$cx − Sets the x-coordinate of the center.
$cy − Sets the y-coordinate of the center.
$width − Sets the ellipse width.
$height − Sets the ellipse height.
$color − Sets the color of ellipse. A color identifier created by imagecolorallocate() function.
Return Values
It returns True on success and False on failure.
Example 1
<?php
// Create a blank image.
$image = imagecreatetruecolor(700, 350);
// Select the background color.
$bg = imagecolorallocate($image, 0, 0, 0);
// Fill the background with the color selected above.
imagefill($image, 0, 0, $bg);
// Choose a color for the ellipse.
$col_ellipse = imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 255, 255);
// Draw the ellipse.
imageellipse($image, 325, 175, 500, 175, $col_ellipse);
// Output the image.
header("Content-type: image/png");
imagepng($image);
?>Output
Example 2
<?php
//It creates the blank image or size of the image.
$image = imagecreatetruecolor(700, 600);
//Set the background color of the image.
$bg = imagecolorallocate($image, 122, 122, 122);
//Fill background with the above-selected color.
imagefill($image, 0, 0, $bg);
// set color of the ellipse.
$col_ellipse = imagecolorallocate($image, 0, 255, 255);
// Function to draw the ellipse.
imageellipse($image, 250, 300, 300, 550, $col_ellipse);
// Output of the image.
header("Content-type: image/gif");
imagepng($image);
?>Output
