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# imagecreatefrompng

(PHP 3 >= 3.0.13, PHP 4, PHP 5)

imagecreatefrompng -- Create a new image from file or URL

## Description

resource imagecreatefrompng ( string filename )

imagecreatefrompng() returns an image identifier representing the image obtained from the given filename.

imagecreatefrompng() returns an empty string on failure. It also outputs an error message, which unfortunately displays as a broken link in a browser. To ease debugging the following example will produce an error PNG:

Example 1. Example to handle an error during creation
`<?php function LoadPNG($imgname) { $im = @imagecreatefrompng($imgname); /* Attempt to open */ if (!$im) { /* See if it failed */ $im = imagecreatetruecolor(150, 30); /* Create a blank image */ $bgc = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255); $tc = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0); imagefilledrectangle($im, 0, 0, 150, 30, $bgc); /* Output an errmsg */ imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5, "Error loading $imgname", $tc); } return $im; } ?>`

> Tip: You can use a URL as a filename with this function if the fopen wrappers have been enabled. See fopen() for more details on how to specify the filename and Appendix M for a list of supported URL protocols.

Warning
Windows versions of PHP prior to PHP 4.3.0 do not support accessing remote files via this function, even if allow_url_fopen is enabled.

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