gd: set the background color for $img ?

[habbardone]

Hi I am getting the hang of this gd - but one little problem remains - how do I assign color to the image so that the background is not black ?

This is the code I have written but I want to change the color of the background ??

<?php
function fromhex($string){
GLOBAL $img1;
sscanf($string, "%2x%2x%2x", $red, $green, $blue);
return ImageColorAllocate($img1,$red,$green,$blue);
}

$img1 = imageCreateTrueColor(120,120);
$background = fromhex('ffffff');
$words = "No Photo";
$font = "/LSANSI.TTF";

imageTTFText($img1, 15, 0,15,60,fromhex('ffffff'),$font, $words);
imageTTFText($img1, 15, 0,35,80,fromhex('ffffff'),$font, "Yet!");
imageFilledRectangle ( $img1, 5, 5, 10, 115,fromhex('33bb99'));
imageFilledRectangle ( $img1, 5, 110, 115,115,fromhex('33bb99'));
imageFilledRectangle ( $img1, 110, 5, 115,115,fromhex('33bb99'));
imageFilledRectangle ( $img1, 5, 5, 115,10,fromhex('33bb99'));
header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
imagejpeg($img1,"./no_image.jpg",100);
imagejpeg($img1,"",100);
imageDestroy($img1);

?>

[onion2k]

Theres 3 ways:

1. Just allocate a colour immediately after creating the image. I don't trust this method personally.

2. Use imagefill($image,0,0,$color) before drawing anything.

3. Use imagefilledrectangle() before drawing anything.

[onion2k]

One other thing:

mageFilledRectangle ( $img1, 5, 5, 10, 115,fromhex('33bb99'));
imageFilledRectangle ( $img1, 5, 110, 115,115,fromhex('33bb99'));
imageFilledRectangle ( $img1, 110, 5, 115,115,fromhex('33bb99'));
imageFilledRectangle ( $img1, 5, 5, 115,10,fromhex('33bb99'));

Thats really horrible code. You're calling fromhex('33bb99') four times when one would do.

[habbardone]

So ....

how do i write it in a less horrible way ?