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); ?>