PHP: imagecolorat - Manual - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

To test whether to handle the return value of this function as RGB or a palette index, see either imageistruecolor(), or (for GD < 2.0.1, or PHP 4 < 4.3.2) imagecolorstotal() == 0. It seems that a number of comments here take many lines to convert RGB or

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