PHP | ImagickDraw setTextAlignment() Function

The ImagickDraw::setTextAlignment() function is an inbuilt function in PHP which is used to specify a text alignment which can be left, center or right.

Syntax:

bool ImagickDraw::setTextAlignment( $alignment )

Parameters: This function accepts a single parameter $alignment which is used to hold the value of ALIGN_ constants.

List of ALIGN_ constants are given below:

• Imagick::ALIGN_UNDEFINED (integer)
• Imagick::ALIGN_LEFT (integer)
• Imagick::ALIGN_CENTER (integer)
• Imagick::ALIGN_RIGHT (integer)

Return Value: This function does not return any value.

Below program illustrates the ImagickDraw::setTextAlignment() function in PHP:

Program:

<?php

// Create an ImagickDraw object
$draw = new ImagickDraw();

// Set the image filled color
$draw->setFillColor('white');

// Set the Font size
$draw->setFontSize(40);

// Set the text Alignment
$draw->setTextAlignment(0);

// Set the text to be added
$draw->annotation(110, 75, "GeeksforGeeks!");

// Set the text alignment
$draw->setTextAlignment(1);

// Set the Font size
$draw->setFontSize(20);

// Set the text to be added
$draw->annotation(100, 110, "A computer science portal for geeks");

// Create new imagick object
$imagick = new Imagick();

// Set the image dimension
$imagick->newImage(500, 300, 'green');

// Set the image format
$imagick->setImageFormat("png");

// Draw the image
$imagick->drawImage($draw);
header("Content-Type: image/png");

// Display the image
echo $imagick->getImageBlob();
?>

Output:

Reference: http://php.net/manual/en/imagickdraw.settextalignment.php