PHP | imagegif() Function Last Updated : 11 Jul, 2025 Comments Improve Suggest changes Like Article Like Report The imagegif() function is an inbuilt function in PHP which is used to create the GIF image file from the given image. If the image has been made transparent with imagecolortransparent() function, then GIF89a image format will generate otherwise GIF87a image format will generate. Syntax: bool imagegif( $image, $to ) Parameters: This function accepts two parameters as mentioned above and described below: $image: It is returned by one of the image creation functions, such as imagecreatetruecolor(). It is used to create size of image. $to: This parameter is used to set the path of input image. If it is not set or set to NULL, then it will produce raw image stream. Return Value: This function returns True on success or False on failure. Below programs illustrate the imagegif() function in PHP: Program 1: php <?php // Create a new image of given size $image = imagecreatetruecolor(500, 300); // Set background color $bg = imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 255, 255); // Set text color $textcolor = imagecolorallocate($image, 0, 153, 0); // Make the background white imagefilledrectangle($image, 0, 0, 500, 300, $bg); // Draw a text string on the image imagestring($image, 6, 160, 140, 'GeeksforGeeks', $textcolor); // Output the image to browser header('Content-Type: image/gif'); // Create GIF image imagegif($image); imagedestroy($image); ?> Output: Program 2: php <?php // Load the PNG image file $png = imagecreatefrompng( 'https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/geeksforgeeks-9.png'); // Output the image to browser header('Content-Type: image/gif'); // Convert PNG image to GIF image imagegif($png); imagedestroy($png); ?> Output: Related Articles: PHP | imagecolorexactalpha() Function PHP | imagecolormatch() Function PHP | imagecolorexact() Function Reference: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imagegif.php Create Quiz Comment V vijay_raj Follow 0 Improve V vijay_raj Follow 0 Improve Article Tags : Misc Web Technologies PHP Image-Processing PHP-function +1 More Explore BasicsPHP Syntax4 min readPHP Variables5 min readPHP | Functions6 min readPHP Loops4 min readArrayPHP Arrays5 min readPHP Associative Arrays4 min readMultidimensional arrays in PHP5 min readSorting Arrays in PHP4 min readOOPs & InterfacesPHP Classes2 min readPHP | Constructors and Destructors5 min readPHP Access Modifiers4 min readMultiple Inheritance in PHP4 min readMySQL DatabasePHP | MySQL Database Introduction4 min readPHP Database connection2 min readPHP | MySQL ( Creating Database )3 min readPHP | MySQL ( Creating Table )3 min readPHP AdvancePHP Superglobals6 min readPHP | Regular Expressions12 min readPHP Form Handling4 min readPHP File Handling4 min readPHP | Uploading File3 min readPHP Cookies9 min readPHP | Sessions7 min read Like