imagesetstyle

Anonymous (2012-10-22 16:03:12)

a shortcut for basic dashed lines, making it easy to adjust the lengths:

<?php

$length1 = 20;
$length2 = 10;
$style = array_merge(array_fill(0, $length1, $red), array_fill(0, $length2, $w));
imagesetstyle($im, $style);

?>

php at imperium dot be (2010-08-06 07:05:59)

Be aware that styles are applied towards the width of the line instead of linear.
To convert a style to be used for thick lines you can use the function below:

<?php
/*
ImageStyleThicken(<aStyle>,<iThickness>) --> <aThickStyle>

<aStyle> is the style array for a thickness of 1 (see imagesetstyle()).
<iThickness> is the new thickness to apply (see imagesetthickness()).

<aThickStyle> is the style array suitable for the given thickness.
*/
function ImageStyleThicken($_1,$_2) {
    $a = array();
    foreach ($_1 as $x) {
        $i = $_2;
        do $a[] = $x; while (--$i>0); }
    return $a;
}
?>

Wander (2007-12-13 11:12:41)

Function to make a line with random fading:

<?php
    function fading_line($img,$sx,$sy,$ex,$ey){
        $r=rand(0,5);$g=rand(0,5);$b=rand(0,5);
        $l=sqrt((($ex-$sx)*($ex-$sx))+(($ey-$sy)*($ey-$sy)));
        for($i=0;$i<$l;$i++){
            $a = array(255-((255/$l)*$i), 255,0,(255/$l)*$i/2,(255/$l)*$i,(255-((255/$l)*$i))/2);
            $style[]=imagecolorallocate($img,$a[$r],$a[$g],$a[$b]);
        }
        imagesetstyle($img,$style);
        imageline($img,$sx,$sy,$ex,$ey,IMG_COLOR_STYLED);
    }
    
    fading_line($img,10,20,490,40);    // image, start x, start y, end x, end y
?>

Michael_Todd_335 at yahoo dot com (2007-06-27 09:40:43)

Watch out! If you pass imagesetstyle() an empty array as the second argument, it will crash your server!
I was messing with it just earlier and accidentally did so, and the page took a good minute to process, when my Apache server came up with the good ol' Windows 'Send Error Report' window.

Cruz at FtUC dot net (2006-01-15 03:45:00)

When lines drawn with imagesetstyle seem to produce a thin white line only, make sure antialiasing is disabled.

<?
  imageantialias($im, false);
  $style = array($gridxcolor, $gridxcolor, IMG_COLOR_TRANSPARENT, IMG_COLOR_TRANSPARENT);
  imagesetstyle($im, $style);
  imageline($im, $x, 0, $x, $ymax+5, IMG_COLOR_STYLED);
  imageantialias($im, true);
?>

Setstyle and Antialias don't go together.

zackbloom at gmail dot com (2005-12-06 14:44:28)

Use this to set the style to any combination of pixels.
You can pass as many modifiers as you wish.
Use the format [num]r[red]g[green]b[blue].
For example:
$im=dashed($im,"4r255g0b0","2r0g255b0","5r0g0b255");
imageline($im, 0, 0, 600, 600, IMG_COLOR_STYLED);
function dashed($im){
$size = func_num_args();
for($i = 0; $i < $size; $i++){
$arg = func_get_arg($i);
if(!is_resource($arg)){
$r=substr($arg,strpos($arg,"r")+1,
strpos($arg,"g")-strpos($arg,"r")-1);
$g=substr($arg,strpos($arg,"g")+1,
strpos($arg,"b")-strpos($arg,"g")-1);
$b=substr($arg,strpos($arg,"b")+1,
strlen($arg)-strpos($arg,"b"));
$color = imagecolorallocate($im,$r,$g,$b);
$x = substr($arg,0,strpos($arg,"r"));
$vals[$i] = array_fill(0,$x,$color);
}
}
for($k=0;$k<count($vals)+1;$k++)
if(array_key_exists($k,$vals)) $prop=array_merge($prop,$vals[$k]);
imagesetstyle($im, $prop);
return $im;
}

yhoko at yhoko dot com (2004-08-11 06:24:04)

When drawing lines that are >1px thick you'll have to setup the array corresponding to this fact (since there's no multi-array support for this function).
For example if the line's 3 pixels thick each 2nd color goes to the 2nd line, each 3rd color to the 3rd line and so on.