From b47cadeca3dfe3e0e1325ab15e8a9b3feb312086 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Barr <dave@php.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:51:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] - Add info on automatically detected/supported types. Add
 return   values, see alsos, and an example.

git-svn-id: https://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/en/trunk@166184 c90b9560-bf6c-de11-be94-00142212c4b1
---
 .../image/functions/imagecreatefromstring.xml | 53 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/reference/image/functions/imagecreatefromstring.xml b/reference/image/functions/imagecreatefromstring.xml
index a02f74a994..e64fe412f4 100644
--- a/reference/image/functions/imagecreatefromstring.xml
+++ b/reference/image/functions/imagecreatefromstring.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.3 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.4 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/image.xml, last change in rev 1.31 -->
   <refentry id="function.imagecreatefromstring">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -7,14 +7,61 @@
     <refpurpose>Create a new image from the image stream in the string</refpurpose>
    </refnamediv>
    <refsect1>
-    <title>Description</title>
+    &reftitle.description;
      <methodsynopsis>
       <type>resource</type><methodname>imagecreatefromstring</methodname>
       <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>image</parameter></methodparam>
      </methodsynopsis>
     <para>
      <function>imagecreatefromstring</function> returns an image identifier
-     representing the image obtained from the given string.
+     representing the image obtained from the given string. These types
+     will be automatically detected if your build of PHP supports them:
+     JPEG, PNG, GIF, WBMP, and GD2.
+    </para>
+   </refsect1>
+   <refsect1>
+    &reftitle.returnvalues;
+    <para>
+     An image resource will be returned on success. &false; is returned if
+     the image type is unsupported, the data is not in a recogised format,
+     or the image is corrupt and cannot be loaded.
+    </para>
+   </refsect1>
+   <refsect1>
+    &reftitle.seealso;
+    <para>
+     <function>imagecreatefromjpeg</function>,
+     <function>imagecreatefrompng</function>,
+     <function>imagecreatefromgif</function>&listendand;
+     <function>imagecreate</function>
+    </para>
+   </refsect1>
+   <refsect1>
+    &reftitle.examples;
+    <para>
+     <example>
+      <title><function>imagecreatefromstring</function> example</title>
+      <programlisting role="php">
+<![CDATA[
+<?php
+$data = 'iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABwAAAASCAMAAAB/2U7WAAAABl'
+       . 'BMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAASUlEQVR4XqWQUQoAIAxC2/0vXZDr'
+       . 'EX4IJTRkb7lobNUStXsB0jIXIAMSsQnWlsV+wULF4Avk9fLq2r'
+       . '8a5HSE35Q3eO2XP1A1wQkZSgETvDtKdQAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==';
+$data = base64_decode($data);
+
+$im = imagecreatefromstring($data);
+if ($im !== false) {
+    header('Content-Type: image/png');
+    imagepng($im);
+}
+else {
+    echo 'An error occured.';
+}
+?>
+]]>
+      </programlisting>
+     </example>
     </para>
    </refsect1>
   </refentry>