Before we begin drawing on our image, there are two functions that we should consider, for added variety.

1. Line color can be modified using the imagecolorallocate() function, which we learned about before. It should be stored in a variable to be used later.

2. Line thickness can be modified using the imagesetthickness() function, which requires two parameters: imagesetthickness(image, thickness)

The imageline() function itself requires 6 parameters. The syntax is: imageline(image, x1, y1, x2, y2, color)

image = Refers to the Image Resource That the Line Will Be Applied to
x1 = x-coordinate For First Point
y1 = y-coordinate For First Point
x2 = x-coordinate For Second Point
y2 = y-coordinate For Second Point
color = Refers to the Line Color Identifier Created With imagecolorallocate()

<?php
  header('Content-type: image/png');
  $png_image = imagecreate(150, 150);
  imagecolorallocate($png_image, 15, 142, 210);
  $black = imagecolorallocate($png_image, 0, 0, 0);
  imageline($png_image, 0, 0, 150, 150, $black);
  imagepng($png_image);
  imagedestroy($png_image);
?>

Guess what the program above will do? It will draw a diagonal black line from the top left to the bottom right of the image.

Now, can you figure out how to draw a thick black border around the entire image? That might be more of a challenge...

<?php
  header('Content-type: image/png');
  $png_image = imagecreate(150, 150);

  imagecolorallocate($png_image, 15, 142, 210);
  imagesetthickness($png_image, 5);
  $black = imagecolorallocate($png_image, 0, 0, 0);

  $x = 0;
  $y = 0;
  $w = imagesx($png_image) - 1;
  $z = imagesy($png_image) - 1;

  imageline($png_image, $x, $y, $x, $y+$z, $black);
  imageline($png_image, $x, $y, $x+$w, $y, $black);
  imageline($png_image, $x+$w, $y, $x+$w, $y+$z, $black);
  imageline($png_image, $x, $y+$z, $x+$w ,$y+$z, $black);

  imagepng($png_image);
  imagedestroy($png_image);
?>

See Example

To draw dashed lines, use the following function and syntax: imagedashedline(image, x1, y1, x2, y2, color)

<?php
  header('Content-type: image/png');
  $png_image = imagecreate(150, 150);

  imagecolorallocate($png_image, 15, 142, 210);
  imagesetthickness($png_image, 5);
  $black = imagecolorallocate($png_image, 0, 0, 0);

  $x = 0;
  $y = 0;
  $w = imagesx($png_image) - 1;
  $z = imagesy($png_image) - 1;

  imageline($png_image, $x, $y, $x, $y+$z, $black);
  imageline($png_image, $x, $y, $x+$w, $y, $black);
  imageline($png_image, $x+$w, $y, $x+$w, $y+$z, $black);
  imageline($png_image, $x, $y+$z, $x+$w ,$y+$z, $black);

  imagedashedline($png_image, 150, 0, 0, 150, $black);

  imagepng($png_image);
  imagedestroy($png_image);
?>

See Example

Summary:

Function	Description
imagecolorallocate()	Allocate a Color For An Image
imagesetthickness()	Set the Thickness For Line Drawing
imageline()	Draw a Line
imagedashedline()	Draw a Dashed Line