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# ImageCreateFromGIF

(PHP 3 <= 3.0.18, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0)

ImageCreateFromGIF -- Create a new image from file or URL

## Description

``int imagecreatefromgif` (string filename)`

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

ImageCreateFromGif() 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 GIF:

Example 1. Example to handle an error during creation (courtesy vic@zymsys.com)
    function LoadGif ($imgname) {
        $im = @ImageCreateFromGIF ($imgname); /* Attempt to open */
        if (!$im) { /* See if it failed */
            $im = ImageCreate (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;
    }

> Note: Since all GIF support was removed from the GD library in version 1.6, this function is not available if you are using that version of the GD library.

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