# imagecreatefromwbmp

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.1, PHP 5)

imagecreatefromwbmp — Create a new image from file or URL

### Description

resource imagecreatefromwbmp ( string `$filename` )

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

imagecreatefromwbmp() 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 WBMP:

Example#1 Example to handle an error during creation

`<?php
function LoadWBMP($imgname)
{
$im = @imagecreatefromwbmp($imgname); /* Attempt to open */
if (!$im) { /* See if it failed */
$im = imagecreatetruecolor (20, 20); /* Create a blank image */
$bgc = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$tc = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
imagefilledrectangle($im, 0, 0, 10, 10, $bgc);
/* Output an errmsg */
imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5, "Error loading $imgname", $tc);
}
return $im;
}
?>`
Tip

You can use a URL as a filename with this function if the fopen wrappers have been enabled. See fopen() for more details on how to specify the filename and List of Supported Protocols/Wrappers for a list of supported URL protocols.

### Parameters

`filename`

  Path to the WBMP image

### Return Values

Returns an image resource identifier on success, `FALSE` on errors.

### Notes

> Note: WBMP support is only available if PHP was compiled against GD-1.8 or later.

Warning

Windows versions of PHP prior to PHP 4.3.0 do not support accessing remote files via this function, even if allow_url_fopen is enabled.