# imagesetstyle

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5, PHP 7)

imagesetstyle — Set the style for line drawing

### Description

imagesetstyle ( resource `$image` , array `$style` ) : bool

imagesetstyle() sets the style to be used by all line drawing functions (such as imageline() and imagepolygon()) when drawing with the special color `IMG_COLOR_STYLED` or lines of images with color `IMG_COLOR_STYLEDBRUSHED`.

### Parameters

`image`

  An image resource, returned by one of the image creation functions, such as imagecreatetruecolor().

`style`

  An array of pixel colors. You can use the `IMG_COLOR_TRANSPARENT` constant to add a transparent pixel. Note that `style` must not be an empty array.

### Return Values

Returns `TRUE` on success or `FALSE` on failure.

### Examples

Following example script draws a dashed line from upper left to lower right corner of the canvas:

Example #1 imagesetstyle() example

`<?php
header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
$im = imagecreatetruecolor(100, 100);
$w = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$red = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 0, 0);
/* Draw a dashed line, 5 red pixels, 5 white pixels */
$style = array($red, $red, $red, $red, $red, $w, $w, $w, $w, $w);
imagesetstyle($im, $style);
imageline($im, 0, 0, 100, 100, IMG_COLOR_STYLED);
/* Draw a line of happy faces using imagesetbrush() with imagesetstyle */
$style = array($w, $w, $w, $w, $w, $w, $w, $w, $w, $w, $w, $w, $red);
imagesetstyle($im, $style);
$brush = imagecreatefrompng("http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/images/smile.happy.png");
$w2 = imagecolorallocate($brush, 255, 255, 255);
imagecolortransparent($brush, $w2);
imagesetbrush($im, $brush);
imageline($im, 100, 0, 0, 100, IMG_COLOR_STYLEDBRUSHED);
imagejpeg($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>`

The above example will output something similar to:

### See Also

- imagesetbrush() - Set the brush image for line drawing
- imageline() - Draw a line